BLTs and Tomato Woes
The garden this year has been pretty chill. Many of the annoying weeds of years past - like thistle, have been replaced by grass, purslane (edible) and creeping charlie (edible).…
Redwall Cookbook: Brockhall Badger Carrot Cakes (Potato, Onion and Carrot Cakes)
On a tip from the Straight Dope website, my husband and daughter started reading the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. The first book, Redwall, was published in 1986. The stories…
Easy Chocolate Ice Cream
Summer = hot = ice cream season right? A few weeks ago, America's Test Kitchen posted a few easy ice cream recipes from their archives. This Easy Chocolate Ice Cream…
Guacamole
I joke that I can look out on our deck and name all the sauces we have planted out there. It's not a basil plant it is a pesto plant,…
New York-Style Crumb Cake
I am CRAZY in love with Cook's Illustrated Baking Book*. It's been out for a few months now, and I have yet to find a baking recipe I do not…
Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches made with Castello® Burger Blue cheese
Disclaimer: I received a coupon from and Castello® for a nearly free package of Castello® Burger Blue Cheese for the purpose of this review and campaign. The following are my own…
Dirt Cake…now with Strawberries!
We recently got together with some family, okay a LOT of family. Whenever events like this happen, I immediately think "Yes! I can make dirt!" Besides, who wants to scale…
Overnight Cinnamon Monkey Bread
You know that center piece of a cinnamon roll, the round, gooey, sugary - cinnamon piece? How would you like piece after piece of this center section for your next…
Coconut Macaroons
Coconut macaroon recipe, where have you been all my life? Wow, this recipe was ridiculously easy - even though I consulted a few cookbooks and blogs before making these. When…
Enjoying Pesto from the Freezer
One of the last things we harvested from the garden last fall was a forest of basil. I was determined to pull out snack size bags of frozen pesto to…