(Kinda) Baked Sundays: Granola Clusters
These lightly sweetened and spiced, crunchy oat nuggets will rock your mouth. Granola Clusters Time 2 days, 30 minutes active. Ingredients: 4 oz (1 stick) butter 4 oz unrefined coconut oil 1/4 cup maple…
Baked Sundays: Epic Baking FAIL!
This is an ancient draft post from way back before I started culinary school. I never got around to finishing it. Here it is… Every now and then even the most experienced cooks and bakers…
Baked Sundays: Sunflower Butter Cookies With Cranberries
As there are more and more nut allergies (or perceived to be) these days, I decided to play with a classic peanut butter cookie recipe and swap the peanut for sunflower, and then add a…
Baked Sundays: Crackers!
These are damn tasty crackers! Crunchy, flavorful, healthy and awesome! I’d been wanting to experiment with crackers for the kids at school, but wanted them to be really healthy, I remembered a recipe we made…
Rethinking Old Ways: Hard Boiled Eggs
For years I’ve used the “Julia Child Method” for making hard boiled eggs, and while it works most of the time, the times it fails and I end up with those heinous green rings, gritty…
Sunday Breakfast, Mexican Style.
I had an awesome breakfast today! What you’re looking at is carne marinated pork sauteed with kale, leek, and mushroom, alongside some scrambled eggs with a bit of Tapatio hotsauce, over La Mexicana soft corn…
Eating Well: Red Russian Kale Frittata
Russian Kale Frittata (Quick note: I don’t use non-stick cookware, so frittatas take a bit more oil, I’ve noted where you can leave out 2tbsp if using non-stick). Rinse your kale well, the cut off…
Eating Well: Bok Choy Blossoms & Tortellini
Great, super fast meal using store-bough fresh tortellini, the last of my farmer’s market finds from last week, along with a tasty easy sauce of butter and goat cheese. You’re done in minutes. Boiling the…
Baked Sundays: Brown Butter Shortbread With Saffron
I am in fact, slightly evil. To make it worse, I didn’t just make an addictive brown butter shortbread, I added saffron as a mood enhancer. Brown Butter Shortbread With Saffron Yeild: 64 2″ x…
Eating Well: Tuna Radicchio Salad
So, “Eating Well For One On A Budget” is way too long to put in most post titles, and EWFOOAB is an ugly shortening, so, we’re just going to call the series “Eating Well” from…
Eating Well For One On A Budget
Welcome to a new series here on how to cook for one person on a tight budget. Over the course of the week I’ll be posting what I make with all of this. $9.55 all…
Baked Sundays: Buttermilk Lasagna
Oh, hi there! I hope you didn’t think that Baked Sundays was all about cakes, cookies and sweet decadence. It’s most certainly also about savory decadence! What you’re looking at is a lasagna made with…
Baked Sundays: Recipe: Banana Bar Bites
This weekend I was away visiting my friends in Mendocino, pics from that to come. While i was staying with Sydnee & Ken I got to watch as Ken made this recipe. It’s strangely fascinating…
Baked Sundays, a little early
Hola! So while I will be baking on Sunday, the site will be undergoing some background maintenance and I won’t be able to post tomorrow’s baking until Monday. And yes, I said a little early…
Misadventures in gluten-free baking
No, I am not going “Gluten-Free” or “GF” it ain’t happening. But I have friends with gluten issues from confirmed celiac, to people who just feeling better without gluten, so I’ve decided to see what’s…
Baked Sundays
Welcome to Baked Sundays, wherein I bake and share on Sunday. The photos at least you get today, the recipe was a first draft, so while you’ll get to see my chocolate/ginger/yogurt cake, and I…
Orange Loaf for Lionel
So, my buddy Lionel is a dessert man but he prefers the use of chocolate to be limited; he feels it’s overused in desserts, and he has a point. And it was a chocolate orange…
Persian Kotlet
Kotlet is a Persian dish made from ground meat, mashed potato, onion, herbs and spices. It’s damn tasty, and dead easy to make. If you can make a meatball, you can make this, it’s that…
What Remains…
Gets a makeover. I used the leftover beer braised oxtail, and salsa verde to make a twist on Heuvos Rancheros. Here I simmered the oxtail meat in the salsa verde served with two eggs over…
Salsa Verde With Roasted Tomatillo
This is a fast easy recipe for a salsa verde that is bright and flavorful. Salsa Verde – Time 30 minutes, Yield aprrox 2 cups. Ingredients: 1 pound tomatillos 2 teaspooons olive oil 1/4…