I write a fair share of posts about eating local, seasonal and unprocessed. The truth is, I think everything is good in moderation. Today, I will discuss: What is (are) my secret food vice (s)? Well, to start off, I love peanut M&Ms. Love to snack on them while I write blogs, love to sneak [...]
My backyard is sometimes a poor excuse for a garden, but occasionally I can find moments of awesomeness that are worth sharing. This time of year, the tomatoes left on the vines are pretty sad and ready to be ripped up. The raised vegetable beds have a couple of rouge pumpkin/squashes that need to be composted. And [...]
Our new friends were over this weekend, and we got to talking about bread making. Yvonne was struggling because she is used to cake yeast and was having difficulty finding a good local source. It made me wonder what the difference is between cake and granulated yeast, as I always reach for Bob’s Red Mill [...]
Michelle has been nagging suggesting I bring back this feature, Cookie Thursday, from last year; she has written several times about how much she enjoyed reading about what we were baking in our kitchen. Unfortunately, do to insane after school schedules, and lack of interest on the part of the kids (not in eating the [...]
With bees in the backyard, and concerns about high fructose corn syrup and other easily refined sugars in processed food items, I have been considering how to move towards healthier sweeteners in our home. Easy enough when adding syrup to waffles or honey to yogurt, but a little trickier when thinking about baked goods. Fortunately, [...]
From the random mindbump site, here is today’s writing prompt (remember, I am participating in National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) with a post a day): “If you were limited to having only one electrical outlet in your home, what device would you plug into it?” I am going to chose to modify this by asking: [...]
This is not so much a review as it is a comparison post. My old anodized pans were looking shabby, so I removed them to the camping supply box and brought out my trusty cast iron. But my dear husband doesn’t love cooking with cast iron; he has trouble modulating the heat and these pans [...]
Last year, when Mariquita Farms included fresh peanuts in our box, Louise and I made peanut brittle. Not really a disaster, per se, but not super successful. The candy was rock hard and I might have chipped a tooth. This year, I am looking for a different way to prepare the peanuts and fortunately Chef [...]
Very exciting in our backyard farm – the chickens are molting. All at the same time. Joy. The good parts about molting: 1. The girls don’t make as much noise (although that could be because the weather has changed) 2. Humm, that might be it When they molt, they don’t lay eggs, so we are [...]
One of my very favorite, and first cookbooks, is the Frog Commissary Cookbook from a now-defunct restaurant in Philadelphia. The spine is a mess, with many pages holding on for dear life. I wrote my whole name in the book, back before I was married, probably because I brought it along to college and did [...]
The prompt from NaBloPoMo for November 2 was: If you knew that whatever you ate next would be your last meal, what would you want it to be? Would you think I was strange if I told you I have been oddly fascinated by what death row inmates chose as their last meals? Every time [...]
We had a pile of pears left over last week and I needed a quick recipe to use the stash before our next box from Happy Child CSA ripened. Fortunately, there was a great recipe included in the weekly newsletter, Becky’s Pear Cake. It was easy to make, and I modified slightly with the addition [...]
