Posted in bread, breakfast, cheap meals, comfort on Mar 7th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve altered my Flaky Southern Style Biscuits Recipe to include a Stand Mixer Recipe as well as some method adjustments. The first recipe uses a rolling pin and kneads the dough by hand. I think it’s personal preference, but I have really loved my results with the stand mixer and find hand patting [...]
Posted in bread, chicken, citrus, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, sauce on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Is this technically even a pesto? Or just a texture similar to pesto involving pureed nuts, herbs, garlic and veggies. I don’t know. It seems in essence pesto generally refers to basil, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil, but has been expanded to include about a billion other things to create gourmet accouterments. This recipe [...]
Posted in bread, vegetables on Oct 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about pumpkin bread ever since I left San Francisco. My nephew is obsessed, which in and of itself is a curiosity, since for the time being he’s generally offended by food. 85% of canned pumpkin hails from a small town, that I guess could be considered a suburb of where I grew [...]
Posted in bread, salad, salmon on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve been running behind all week, and I’m blaming the rain. In the past 7 days, we’ve had 8-9 inches of rain. Not storms, thank goodness, but steady, streaming rain nearly unceasing all week. Everything is soaking wet and crazy humid, and the preschoolers are pissed. It’s enough to make one wonder if the universe [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, comfort, food to share on Aug 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Biscuits are something people develop extremely strong opinions about and at the same time such an intense love affair for the preferred style it becomes difficult to even appreciate other methods. When my sister’s husband wanted to move from the city of San Francisco out into the woods to have trees and nature and a [...]
Posted in bread, easy meals, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, olives, pasta on Jun 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
This post will wrap up the party food and I’ll be back to our regularly featured programming. I have an exciting plan to recreate an appetizer I had at The Porch Restaurant tomorrow, so tune back in for that.
The end of the party preparation had me totally feeling like the Iron Chef. There was a [...]
Posted in bread, zucchini on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Cooking is always an experiment. The adaptation process to having this blog has been interesting. It’s one thing when you’re family is the only one watching what you place on the dinner table. I mean really, how much can they actually complain? Dinner was on the table, right? When I started this process, it was [...]
Posted in bread on Apr 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
I found time to get in touch with Robert Shimmin concerning my banana bread yougurt substitution experiment. If you followed that link, you’ll notice it takes me to my domain instead of the normal blogspot address. Now that I’ve gotten going with this blog, I’ve realized I really should have had it at my own [...]
Posted in bread on Apr 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
This recipe comes from my Great Aunt Marguerite, who I am embarrassed to say I can’t actually remember who she’s related to. I know she’s on my mother’s side, but past that I can’t remember. (Sorry Mom!) The sour cream is allegedly the key, though I’ve used yogurt as well and also like that. The [...]
