I am finally getting really comfortable maneuvering my way around a pot of beans. After convincing myself that I wanted to learn more about beans, oh, about a year ago, I think I’ve finally arrived at the point where I’m comfortable. Yesterday I determined that I wanted a pot of […]
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Taking Care of A Cake Craving- The Easy Way
The other day Andy and I were catching up on some old DVR’d tv programming, and watched The Amazing Race from a few weeks ago. One of the challenges this week was throwing pies and cakes at your partner’s face, trying to find the cherry filling. And oh my gosh, […]
Don’t Be Fooled By Its Appearance
These Snappy Salad Cups are the second recipe I took to my homemaker’s meeting the other night. I had been racking my brain (tough gig, I know!) trying to come up with something different with vegetables- and refreshing at the same time. I didn’t want anything heavy, and I just […]
Cooking With The Sugar And Spice Homemakers
Last night I had the distinct pleasure of cooking for a lovely group of women in my community. I was both excited and nervous to put together a presentation for these women, and the evening went off without a hitch, and I daresay, some of the best morsels of food […]
Just For Fun
Well, happy March! Maybe one of these days winter will melt away and we will find spring here somewhere! We haven’t really been home much the last few days, so there really hasn’t been any cooking. Tomorrow I’ll have something new to share, but I thought in the meantime, I’d […]
Continuing The Quest For Homemade
I’m really excited about this one today. A few weeks ago, you may remember that I put together a homemade strawberry syrup. This was really borne out of a desired to utilize a freezer full of frozen strawberries, and as it was such a success, it had me thinking about […]
Banana Cookies
Last week found me in the kitchen, staring down a pair of brown bananas. I am one of those people who prefers to eat bananas when they are on the green side. The best bananas are the ones with nary a brown speckle anywhere, and once they start to speckle, […]
Curious About Plastic
Can we talk for a minute about plastic? We’ve gotten addicted to the Planet Green channel, and are constantly thinking about how we can incorporate more of what we see there in our real world lives. One of those things that I’ve been thinking on is plastic and how we […]
Tired of Beans Yet?
Last week I was really in the mood for beans I guess, and I have one more recipe that I want to share with you. Because this bean recipe was spectacular in my book, it was one of those dishes where the results were way more than what I expected, […]
Back To Basics: How To Cook Dried Beans
So why would anyone want to use those bags of dried beans when there are cans upon cans of perfectly good beans just down the aisle? Well, I’ll tell you, there are three major reasons. First and foremost is economics. A one-pound bag of dried black beans is $1.29. (Depending […]
Boulangerie Beans and Potatoes
Yesterday I pulled out my trusty How To Cook Everything Vegetarian to find myself something for dinner. I’ve been in the mood for beans, so I went straight to the legume section to find something to inspire me. My one condition for whatever I ended up making was that I […]
Beans And Greens
Yesterday in the mail I received my March issue of Cooking Light magazine. I was rather excited to get it, and sat down with a mug of tea to pour through and look it over. It’s very interesting to read food magazines right now, because it’s very obvious that they […]