This past Saturday morning, we went and strolled around the farmers’ market. We came across some great finds. I bought some incredibly beautiful Batavian lettuce – which I proceeded to savor each evening for 4 nights straight. Sadly, it is now gone. And I shall have to wait until Saturday morning to go back to the market [...]
Necessity is the mother of invention they say. In the case of cooking, sometimes the best recipes come when you least expect it. I was out of sandwich bread the other day. The morning got away from me and I didn’t have enough time to bake a fresh loaf before lunchtime. The day before, I had picked up [...]
Greetings everyone. We are back from our South African adventure. It was a long 36 hour journey back to our home sweet home but we made it in one piece. The time change (8 hours difference – backwards) has done a number on us. But, we are managing to make the transition, albeit slowly. I will be certain [...]
This cookie kind of reminds me of those little power bar bites. It’s crunchy, a little sweet, a little salty and just the perfect bite size to pop in your mouth. The original Cook’s Country cookie contest winning recipe (called Angel bites) called for butter. But, I replaced it with protein rich Sunbutter (made from sunflower [...]
We carved several pumpkins this week. And we had quite a stack of pumpkin seeds by time we were finished. I tried drying them out this year on a really low temperature over a 24 hour period and they came out crispy and crunchy with the perfect hint of salt. In my opinion, the best [...]
The last couple of weeks there has been a new display at the market down the street. They, as well as Whole Foods, are carrying a new line of dried fruit called Made in Nature. Finding organic unsulphured dried fruit that is not rock hard is a bit of a challenge. And these guys have [...]
Yesterday, I was at the supermarket. As I rounded the corner, there were these huge perky bunches of organic dill perched right in front of my shopping cart. My first thought was the lemon dill dip of my childhood. Our neighbor Louise used to make it for us. She was the coolest lady with incredible stories of travelling the [...]