Tonight, in addition to chicken kiev and broccoli, I wanted just a little something extra with dinner. So I thought, “why not use those extra mushrooms from our weekend of cooking?” And I did. I stemmed and cleaned 10 mushrooms, and stuffed them with: 5T seasoned breadcrumbs mixed with 3T parmesan, stirred together with 2T [...]
One of the vegetables we’ve loved getting from our CSA this year is eggplant. Harry & Deb have been growing purple and white eggplants, and we used one of each to make eggplant parmesan on a not-much-left-in-the-kitchen night. Here’s how we did it: Slice 2lbs. eggplant into 1/4″-1/2″ slices Mix breadcrumbs (we used unseasoned matzo [...]
This was a tasty recipe from Clean Eating. We loved it, but decided that a little chicken would have made it a complete dish on its own. So we’re trying that tonight! The recipe below includes my variations. 1 c. quick cooking barley 1 c. parsley, finely chopped handful of walnut pieces, chopped 2 peaches, [...]
About a month ago, my youngest brother Andrew visited us for about two weeks. We had a great time with him, and one night, he decided we were going to have pizza for dinner. In fact, he decided we were going to eat jalapeno & mushroom pizza. (That’s Eric in the picture tossing the crust.) [...]
I’ve wanted to try quinoa for some time. I even went so far as to buy some. I just never got around to cooking it. A few weeks ago, we were trying to figure out what to cook with the beets from our CSA. So I made quinoa with them. Here’s how I did it: [...]
After I made butter the last time, I was left with leftover buttermilk. What better to use it in than pancakes?! Here’s the recipe (modified from Alton Brown’s): First, make your homemade “instant” pancake mix. Combine in a lidded container: 6 c. flour 1.5 t. baking soda 3 t. baking powder 1 T. kosher salt [...]
By Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver This book gets 5 stars. If more stars were available, I would award them to this book and to every Michael Pollan book I’ve read. This is now on my list of “Books everyone in America should read.” The basic premise of this book is [...]
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