Snow!

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Mouthwatering Meyer Lemon and Ricotta Pancakes over at My Husband Cooks. Baking Bites (formerly Baking Sheet) reports that the FDA is considering changing the definition of chocolate, thereby lowering current standards. Perhaps they should concern themselves with more pressing issues, like contaminated food? A guide on How to Freeze Anything, via Slashfood. Becks and Posh’s […]

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Include alcohol, chocolate, macadamia nuts, avocado, coffee, tea, onions, raisins, and grapes. Much more here, and this list includes foods that you should not feed to cats.

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Last Christmas, we bought some Sam Adams Light beer for dinner guests. Because Master Chow and I do not like beer, five bottles have been sitting in our basement since December. What to do? Beth Hensperger and Beer Batter Bread, to the rescue. Master Chow loved this! The taste of the beer that you use […]

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This is my entry for Chris’s first Cooking to Combat Cancer event! Actually, this is my first entry to any food blog event, ever. I picked a quick and easy kale recipe that I often make. Kale is a cruciferous vegetable (along with broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower) that is high in calcium and other […]

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More blossoms than ever before! Then there’s my poor kaffir lime tree, which experienced a bad case of leaf drop:

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I was fiddling with my template, and all of my links to other sites just disappeared! It wasn’t on purpose, so please be patient while I reconstruct everything. I’m better at cooking than I am at this kind of stuff. Daisy is wondering what I’m up to:

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It had been a while since I baked with yeast – years, in fact. And I grew helping my mom mill her own wheat flour, and bake whole wheat loaves. Every Sunday, we had homemade pizza with tomato sauce canned from our own tomatoes. So, how can someone with that background develop a Fear of […]

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Like most of us, I’ve been pretty busy (and tired) lately, so as usual, I’m catching up on all the news, and recipes I’d like to try. Over at Mark Ruhlman’s blog, guest blogger Bob del Grosso teaches us how NOT to make a tomato sauce Ivonne blogs about some incredible-looking Macadamia Nut Rolls with […]

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Another Molly Stevens recipe. I’m just going to post some pictures from this one – the instructions went on for about three pages, even though the dish is not complicated at all. Trust me! The greasy hands above are Master Chow’s, coming back for his second plateful of ribs. The sauce had a rich taste […]

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