I have been on a pumpkin dessert kick the last few days. Maybe it was having two different friends post tempting pictures on Facebook or maybe it was because my daughter (who loves all thing pumpkin) was going to be home for a few days. Whatever the reason, my family has benefited from this pumpkin […]
Shhh, don’t mention this to my wife, but I bought a mandoline the other day. No, not the musical instrument – that is a mandolin – but the multi-purpose kitchen tool that cuts, slices, grates and juliennes foods. Like a lot of kitchens we have too many gadgets and not enough space to put them […]
More often than not my meal planning starts with looking at recipes, then going to the store to purchase what is needed for that particular dish. Much less frequently I start with the thought “What should I do with this ____ that I have left over.” Dessert the other night was a case of the […]
What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing technical this time – and I admit it is a bit subtle to the casual observer – but something is definitely missing. To understand I need to back up a step… The weather has turned cooler and it seemed a good time to make a nice pot of soup. […]
I made a fantastic (if I say so myself) entrée for my wife’s birthday dinner a few weeks ago. Generally when I make something I really like it finds its way to the blog pretty quickly. In this case it was an incredibly tasty combination of sausage (hot chicken sausage in our case), Granny Smith […]
Have to admit that when I look at other food blogs I am often jealous of the beautiful photography I see there. While my food staging and picture taking skills have improved over the months, I am still a novice, and not nearly as good at this as I’d like to be. Case in point […]
“Hey, this looks very Christmassy.” That was my mother-in-law’s assessment of the Pomegranate Guacamole I made as an appetizer for my wife’s birthday dinner. Oh yea, also “This is very tasty.” She was right on both accounts. I saw this recipe on the Just a Taste food blog and the color is what certainly caught […]
My adventures baking with zucchini and Greek Yogurt continued this week. I bought a few more zucchini at a local farm stand (Cournoyers Farm in Paxton for those of you in Central Mass) after finding an interesting sounding recipe for a chocolate chip zucchini bread on the Domesticated Academic food blog. Not sure if the […]