Spring is here and it’s such a welcome relief. We’ve been so busy this last year with preparing to become parents, learning to manage a business and most recently moving to a new home. We are full on in love with the new place. Some time, I’ll have to share more about it. For today,…
Category: Food
Winter Gives Way & I Make Marmalade
Snow. Winter. Blizzard. Ice. Sub-zero temperatures. These words have become anathema to so many people due to this season’s exceptionally cold and harsh weather. For the first half of the winter, I was its outspoken advocate. Summer’s heat and humidity really drag on my ability to enjoy the outdoors and the dangerously high pollen levels…
Leftovers: Ribeye, White Cheddar & Jalapeño Flatbread
Leftovers. In some cases, like soup, they’re even better than the day they were made. Other things just become dry, congealed messes of unappetizing stuff. Not many recipes are made for one–or even two. This leads to lots of leftovers in this world. I don’t want to talk about the sad leftovers. Let’s talk about…
Brussels Sprouts Pizza
Several blocks from our place, there’s a funky restaurant that serves Brussels sprouts pizza. Yep, sprouts on a pizza. Lots of you are probably thinking how much you hate Brussels sprouts. If that’s you, keep reading. If not, maybe you’re one who just flat out enjoys their taste. Or, maybe you’re one of the lucky…
Late Summer Harvest Soup
In Ohio, the fall is clearly here as evidenced by the slight yellowing/reddening of tree leaves, cooler temperatures, decreased humidity and dwindling supplies of fresh tomatoes. Our home harvest has slowed significantly and my tomatillo just gave up its last few fruits. I knew long ago I wanted to make some sort of green chili…
Back to Basics: Scrambled Eggs
Activity-filled weekends mixed with the desire to sleep in don’t often leave much time for cooking in the morning. On those mornings, I keep things simple. Breakfast might be a little peanut or almond butter on toast, or maybe a cup of Greek yogurt topped with oats/nuts and a tsp of honey or homemade jam….
Korean Beef Lettuce Wraps
In the heat of the summer, one of the last things I want to do is eat a heavy meal–especially in the evenings. That usually leads to lots of meatless meals, which leave my meatasaurus husband typically unsatisfied. So, in an attempt to bridge the gap between our preferences and an attempt to use up…
Cherry Pie-lette
I’ve made pies before and I’ve made galettes. While making tart cherry jar pies recently, I was left with more pie filling and crust than I had clean, sterilized jars. I had the choice of either sterilizing more jars, letting them cool then making more jar pies or I could try to figure out another…
Life’s A Bowl of Cherries
…or more appropriately in this case, it’s two 10-lb buckets of them. I’ve been away from the blog for a while for a myriad of reasons, but mostly our new business venture and the wonderful distraction of travel. More on travel in a future post (or several). We’ve officially purchased the dental practice where my…
Apple Butter Wedding Favor
Favors from our wedding: chunky apple butter made from apples we picked at Lynd’s Fruit Farm near Columbus, OH
What’s The Word, Curd?
I want to tell you today about something new to me that I’ve fallen in love with–blueberry curd. Even more than that, I want to tell you about Kate. She inspires me. At the risk of sharing too much about her, I’ll try to be brief.
Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers
We’re growing lots of peppers in our raised wall containers so I put several of them to good use at this week’s Home Ec. Home Ec is an event started in Toronto by Joel & Dana at Well Preserved (definitely check ’em out!) that’s spread to Columbus. Basically, people of all culinary skill levels who may/may…
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