Who doesn’t like cookies? Last week a friend of ours had a milestone birthday, and I decided I needed to bake them up some cookies to celebrate. When I asked what their favorite was, the first response was chocolate chip, followed by M&M, but then back to the chocolate chip. […]
Month: October 2009
Menu Planning Monday
The last few weeks have been extremely busy! Wow! It seems that we have just not stopped with all the going, and meals have pretty much been whatever I can scrounge up at the last minute. Not exciting at all. I wasn’t going to menu plan this week either, but […]
Chickpeas Like You’ve Never Had ‘Em
Sort of. Today’s recipe doesn’t actually utilize chickpeas in the form that most people know them in. Instead, this really easy, and completely different quick bread is made from chickpea flour- also known as besan or gram flour. As the October weather has just been unpleasantly cold, we’ve quickly succumbed […]
What To Do With Green Tomatoes
Other than bread them and fry them of course! Surely I’m not the only person facing a bumper crop of unripe green tomatoes. Last year, we just left them on the vine to rot and decay. This year, we decided to harvest them all and see if some of them […]
The Secret Is Salad Dressing
When I first saw this soup over at $5 Dinners, it screamed out at me. The picture was so appealing, and the name of it: Tomato Black Bean Barley just sounded so hearty and warming and just the perfect thing for lunch for a cool fall day. Reading through the […]
Amazing Buttermilk Waffles
For the longest time, we had a stash of pancake mixes in our pantry. They were jumbo bags from Sam’s Club that we’d purchased for a community event a few times, and the extras always came home with us. We’ve probably been eating pancakes and waffles out of that stash […]
German Apple Cake
The other day I was in the mood for a cake. In my mind, the perfect cake of the moment was a snacking type cake-the kind that was baked in a 9 x 13 pan, didn’t have frosting really, and didn’t evoke the mood of a special occasion. Basically, I […]
In Light of Recent Global Events…
It just seems wrong to write about waffles or breakfast casseroles, or apple snack cakes that I’ve been cooking up and enjoying. Instead, this morning, here is a video showing the results from the tsunami in Samoa. The swath of destruction is remarkable, and it breaks my heart for the […]