Peanut Sesame Noodles: Featuring Summer Squash
This is one of those dishes. It’s one of those obvious template recipes, where you can add whatever your favorite vegetables are or whatever is in season at the moment. It’s similar to a salad, but bulkier and more interesting. I don’t make many Asian dishes, so the optional use of linguini fini [...]
Black Bean and Veggie Burritos
Ok, Confession time: I haven’t been out of the house without my children since I turned thirty. Well, really since Max was born. He’s now two years old. I went out for a couple of hours once to try to enjoy myself, but, I worried the entire time and ran back home [...]
Kids Choice: Fried Chicken
Are your kids like my kids? They love vegetables, and sure they really do love great food, in general. But the second they see that fast food sign, everything they knew about real food vanishes from their reality. The ever alluring promise of the “happiest” meal they’ve ever experienced accompanies the smell of french [...]
Peach Granita
Sorry I’m a little late this week. I got distracted by gardening. Trey has taken an interest in these plants too which is nice since it means he’s willing to help water. No carnival peppers or sweet 100 tomatoes to speak of yet, but they are on their way. So, while we water and [...]
Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad Stuffed Tomatoes with Cilantro and Basil
I tend to do a lot of bite sized things as the weather heats up. It’s perfect for entertaining. This dish is just a little something extra to put out at a barbecue while people wait for the main event. I’ve also made this using heirloom tomatoes and plum tomatoes and it works great as [...]
Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes
It’s easy, it has only five ingredients and it tastes like a rich and decadent Oreo cookie magically turned into a cake. I like to add a little espresso powder to the batter for a little something deeper in flavor, but you can make it without and it will still be awesome. You may also want to [...]
French Baguettes: Homemade
The problem with bread baking at home is the lack of steam or moisture in the home oven. The crust is just not right. The lack of moisture makes the crust form too soon, which hinders the inside from becoming light, chewy and tender. So, the question is, how do we create steam in [...]
Homespun Chocolate Cake
Mist sprayed upon the garden’s flowers, plants and trees while remnant droplets swung on the breeze, landing to cool our arms and necks as the sun kissed them until slightly pink, that day. We were tired from our travels and the excitement of the magic kingdom the day before and not quite accustomed to so [...]
Spiced Pumpkin Seed Brittle
The second hand ticked, the whistling heater steamed, and I sat, waiting in the overly warm classroom. I looked around at the other students; some apathetic and others relentlessly chatty for so early in the morning. My unnecessary 4-inch heeled boots clicked on the classroom floor and I doodled in my notebook around my careful notes with [...]
Cranberry Walnut Bread and Cranberry Pomegranate Citrus Glaze
It was late in the evening, dusk fell to night and Halloween was only two days away. The surrounding woods were hastily becoming more dark and snowy by the minute. Mike said to me, “I’m going to drive down and look for power”. I nodded. As he rushed off into the blizzard, the lights [...]
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