I won’t keep you with a long-winded post today, because I’m just feeling a little tired after a spectacular holiday weekend. I went back and forth for a couple of hours on varieties of bars to take to our family gathering this weekend, but kept coming back to the same […]
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Quick Strawberry Salad with Vinaigrette
When you live in a Northern climate like I do, you tend to look at magazines and magazine articles with a jaded eye. When a magazine is touting “fresh strawberries now” in March and April, here in the north we roll our eyes and set the article aside for June- […]
Delicious Berry-Filled Muffins
A few months ago I was looking for a quick muffin recipe to add to my repertoire. I had a carton of strawberries in the fridge that needed to be used in something- they were well past prime eating and would get tossed if I didn’t use them. I also […]
Roasted Beet and Barley Salad
My August issue of Eating Well magazine arrived on a day where I was thinking about cooking something new for dinner. As we settled into the house last week, it took a few days before I really felt like I could work in the kitchen. As it is now, the […]
New Beginnings
Well hello there my dear Internets. I cannot tell you how many times over the last three weeks I’ve longed for this moment of being able to sit down at the computer and tell you a story. It’s a crazy story of life- life that actually happened to our family […]
Baked Chicken with Leeks and Apples
Yesterday Andy asked for a simple baked chicken for dinner. I was good with that, and I was making a grocery run, so I could pick up whole chicken legs, which I would break down into drumsticks and thighs, and then bake them up. As I was wandering about the […]
Convenience: Made My Way
Sometimes it’s really difficult to stick to your personal cooking convictions. Take, for example, my insistence that we eat homemade as much as possible. There are definitely days where I want to chuck that homemade part, walk down the convenience aisles of the grocery store, and fill my cart with […]
Great Crock-Pot Chicken Wings
After two weeks of bliss, we were back to a crazy schedule this week. I turned to my friend Stephanie O’Dea for some crock-pot inspiration for the week. I pretty much need two slow cooker friendly recipes a week, and all too often I seem to go back to the […]
Baby Steps To Inspire
I’ve been trying to figure out over these weeks just exactly why I haven’t been enjoying cooking much lately. I am certain that part of it is a restricted budget, because there’s only so many things one can do with hot dogs, you know? But I think a bigger part […]
Hello 2013!
And hello to my food blog, which I very much miss writing in regularly. Hello to you too, if you’ve popped in for a visit or to find an old recipe. As I write this, I have a pot of beans simmering away on the stove. A combination of Navy […]
Yogurt Follow-Up
Straining the yogurt works great! After I let the yogurt sit in the fridge overnight to chill, I pour it into a colander that I’ve lined with coffee filters. Two hours later, I scrape the yogurt into a jar and we have nice, thick Greek style yogurt. I pour the […]
Revisiting Homemade Yogurt
It’s been a very long time since I pulled out my yogurt maker. In fact, I seem to recall not to long ago wondering if I should pass it on to someone who might actually use it. I didn’t, and this week, as I eyed a surplus of milk, I […]