One of the things I love most about the blogging community as a whole is its ability to inspire. A week or so ago, when visiting some of my favorite blogs, I saw a mention of a Pasta with Roasted Carrot Sauce, which came from a cookbook I also have, […]
Month: March 2009
Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?
Specifically, this one: This is their new Harvest Coarse Ground mustard, and it’s fantastic. I bought it last week because I needed a coarse dijon mustard. I really wanted the Grey Poupon coarse mustard, but my grocer had the creamy dijon and this one. At the same price, I took […]
Hello, Breakfast!
Don’t you think? There is no better time of day for an ooey-gooey Blueberry Pudding Cake than breakfast.
Back To Basics: Meatballs
Well, my original intention had been to try and do a Back To Basics post about once a week, but this just seemed like to good of an opportunity to pass up. There really aren’t many food items as adaptable as a basic meatball. Why, with just one meatball recipe […]
Adaptability Is Key
When you’re pinching pennies and trying to ‘make do’ with what you have on hand, it’s really integral to get a feel for substituting when cooking. There have been plenty of times where I’ve been in the middle of making something and had to put everything on hold to run […]
Back To Basics: The Micro-plane
Sometimes when I blog, write a recipe, or even talk about food, it doesn’t occur to me that someone may not know what I am talking about. When I did a cooking demonstration at the beginning of the month, it never occurred to me that the group of women there […]
Encouragement To Plant
I don’t really have a recipe to share today, we had a bit of an easy weekend in the kitchen, nothing super exciting really. I did do a bit of seed starting though and I just wanted to take a minute to encourage all of my blog readers to consider […]
BBQ Chicken Pizza
In my continuing quest to use all leftovers, yesterday I found myself stumped by some leftover BBQ chicken. Tuesday night while we were at dance class, Andy made some BBQ chicken on the charcoal grill, and while it was delicious, there was a bit leftover, yet not really enough to […]
Confessions: I Do Make Mistakes
I don’t have a new recipe today, but I thought everyone would get a kick out of seeing that I do make radical errors in the kitchen from time to time. Last week is the perfect example. I got it in my head to make a batch of Challah, only […]
Old Fashioned Comfort Food
Yesterday, while cleaning up the kitchen, I remembered that I had a loaf of Challah sitting around that was almost a week old. It needed to be used or tossed, and I decided it had been so long since we had bread pudding, and I needed to rectify that. I […]
The Last of the Chard
One of the many things I learned about Swiss Chard last year is that it is very garden hearty, and also a biennial. That means that when I plant seeds in April, I get chard all season long from that one seed. No lie. I had chard anytime I wanted […]
After Years of Bread Baking…
I have finally found the PERFECT sandwich bread. I have had a sandwich bread that I make, and it’s good, it’s tasty, especially fresh out of the oven, but I always thought it could be better. There just was something about it that I thought could be improved, but what […]