If the number of recipes that emerged from week number one is any indication, the CSA Challenge – 2013 Edition is off to a great start. I’m feeling inspired and challenged and my tummy is happy. Pretty good metrics all round. Here’s fingers crossed and napkins tucked in hoping that week #2 is just as…
Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies (redux)
If you love moist, tender cookies, here’s a great gluten-free cookie recipe that everyone is sure to love. Trust me – no one will notice the absence of the wheat flour – they’ll just be going, “Mmm, wow, what are these delicious cookies?!” And, yes, that is “banana” in the title of the recipe. What…
Braised Red Cabbage with Apples
Few cooking techniques are as decidedly “winter” as braising. The method telegraphs a slow, lazy day of cooking — and it proclaims comfort food … and nothing says Sunday dinner better than braised comfort food. If you’re even the slightest bit ‘iffy’ about cabbage, trust me, this will make a convert of you. Anne has dubbed this…
Cookbook Review: Baked Elements
Baked Elements: Our Ten Favorite Ingredients Authors: Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito Price: $37.5o Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang (September 1, 2012) ISBN: 978-1584799856 So this is a review that has been a long time coming … and no, it isn’t because my blog was taken over by a crazed beer sampler. Really…
The Evil Garlic Press
Imagine Freddy Krueger with rusty garden rakes for fingers instead of razor sharp blades. Better yet, think of his wrists ending in old-fashioned meat grinders. He approaches you menacingly as you stand there perplexed wondering how he’s going to do you in with these useless tools attached to his arms, daring you to put your…
Garlic Press Gallery
My photo-journalistic homage to the evils of the garlic press…. Click to View Gallery