(smaller button below)For the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. We’re pretty relaxed over here, and stories and photos are as welcome as menus and recipes. When your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button to paste at the top of your … [Read more...]
Food on Fridays: Beets Are Back
(smaller button below)For the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. We’re pretty relaxed over here, and stories and photos are as welcome as menus and recipes.When your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button (News Flash: my daughter's … [Read more...]
Food on Fridays: CSA Delivery
(smaller button below)Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe.If you want, you could simply tell us if you've had asparagus yet—I'm told it's the first vegetable to emerge in the spring. I had some already in my CSA box. Yum.My point is that we’re pretty … [Read more...]
Food on Fridays: Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread
Uh, Ann? That's not a photo of Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread...Let me explain myself.It's Friday, and because I'm fond of alliteration, I occasionally post about Food on Fridays. I'm no foodie, though. In fact, my kitchen skills are seriously lacking. But I seem to write about some aspect of food on Fridays often enough that I decided to make a button for it. If you write … [Read more...]
Steel Cut Oats Bonus Track
I love to be helpful, so when I manage to provide readers with something useful, thought-provoking, or dig up information they can use to solve a problem, I'm thrilled. That's why it's been unexpected but delightful to discover that one particular blog post seems to fit the bill. This post, explaining step-by-step how to cook steel cut oats overnight by using a crock … [Read more...]
Christmas Crepes
Somebody in our family is having a birthday and requested my famous Kroeker crepes for breakfast. Then I got to thinking how delicious crepes would be for a holiday breakfast or brunch and decided to recommend them to you. Because so many of my friends were too intimidated to try making crepes at home -- and were forking out ridiculous sums of money for a single … [Read more...]
Turkey Tetrazzini
Still have a bag of turkey in the fridge needing some creative recycling?This is the Turkey Tetrazzini recipe from Peg Bracken's "I Hate to Cook" book.I'm not much of a chef, but I have a few recipes I really love. This is one of them.Now, don't get scared off when you read this through. It may sound a little complicated, but after you make it once, you'll see that it … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Pie and Potato Preparation Primer
Well, I'm pretty late posting my Wednesday, pre-Thanksgiving helps.But just in case someone needs a last-minute mashed potato preparation or pumpkin pie tip, let me share with you a brief story.This took place before the days of Martha Stewart's TV show or Internet search capabilities.One time, shortly after I was married, The Belgian Wonder and I visited his family in … [Read more...]
Friday Food Thoughts: Apples Now, Apples Later
We went apple picking this week.We love eating freshly sliced apples as a snack or with lunch.We love them dipped in caramel or Nutella for dessert.We love them just about any way they can be consumed: as applesauce, apple butter, apple pie, or apple cobbler.We love apples.So I started thinking about ways to preserve apples, because just as we discovered on our blueberry … [Read more...]
Monster Nutella
A friend of mine gave me a gift. A big gift. Perhaps a near perfect gift.Check it out:For the photo, to provide some perspective, I placed an ordinary jar of Nutella next to the dynamic duo she bought at Costco. Can you see and appreciate the dramatic difference? Each of the big jars contains twice the little jar.That's a lot of Nutella.I can get the regular jar (that … [Read more...]
"Quatre Quarts" Translates to a Common American Dessert: Guess Which One
Our French visitor offered to make a cake for us. "It's very simple and common," she said. "Everyone makes it." She called it "Quatre Quarts."There are only four ingredients, all in the same amounts. That is, if you weigh your ingredients, like the Europeans do. She didn't know how we managed to cook without a good scale. To a girl used to working in grams, all of those … [Read more...]
Friday Food Thoughts: Crockpot Lime Chicken Tacos
My friend Sharon sent me this link when she saw that I needed Crock Pot recipes: Lime Chicken Tacos.Here's the recipe along with my personal notes inserted in parentheses.Lime Chicken TacosIngredients: 1-1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts 3 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 cup frozen corn 1 cup chunky salsa 12 flour tortillas (6 inches), … [Read more...]
Mmm…Monday Food Report: Whole Chicken in Crock Pot (a mixture of personal beef with chicken)
I intended to compose some Friday Food Reflections, but Friday slipped away without time to post.So I switched to a Monday food report instead.Because I know you're all dying to know about my food discoveries, I'm such the chef.Ha.So here's the first report:Whole Chicken in a Crock(a mixture of personal beef with chicken)Wad up several pieces of foil in loose balls and … [Read more...]
Dueling Blueberry Muffin Recipes
At my request (see my previous post), Andrea of Flourishing Mother and Lisa of Stretch Mark Mama kindly offered me their recipes for blueberry muffins.This morning, because we are practically swimming in blueberries and I was in a mood to bake, I decided to make both recipes and compare, contrast, and crown a winner.In one corner, we have Andrea's Blueberry Muffins, which … [Read more...]
Crock-Flops and Minor Crock-Successes
I was so eager to try some new recipes in the crockpot after being inspired by A Year of Crockpotting that I did a little online search and came up with this highly recommended stew: Crockpot Chicken & Quinoa. It looked soooo good in the photograph. The instructions were easy. I even shocked myself by having on hand in my cupboard a box of quinoa and in the freezer, … [Read more...]
