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Homemade Baklava
As I sit here typing this, my husband is struggling outside in the weather trying to keep up with the snow. We had thought it wouldn’t start until late this afternoon, but were surprised to wake up...
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Easy Peasy Rice Pilaf
Cooking rice has been hard for me. Generally speaking, it turns out a bit crunchy still and for the longest time I just made orzo instead. It’s taken me a while to get the hang of cooking rice in the...
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Bagels and the week in review!
It’s been busy around here! I learned how to make amazing chocolate pudding, a necessity in my opinion. I won’t be sharing the recipe since I wrote it and a few changes on a scrap of paper, but...
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October fresh
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven’t been such a healthy eater these last few months. During the last weeks of my pregnancy and early weeks of Sylvia’s life, other people were doing my...
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Roasted
See that beautiful baby in the photo? She’s sweet and precious and someone I fight to protect every moment of my day. I started doing the October Unprocessed because I was already on a weight loss...
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Pocket sized triumphs
There are days when I realize that the reason why I haven’t done something is simply because I was too unmotivated to get started. Case in point: pitas. For years, I’ve read blog posts about how...
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My favorite
I’m glad I got back into making my own yogurt again. Now, I have a fresh quart of plain yogurt whenever I need it to do neat things like marinate chicken. For months, I’ve had to make a note and a...
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I am sucker for mashed potatoes. I try them everytime they come with meals and spend 364 days a year dreaming about Thanksgiving so that I can have huge servings of my sister-in-law’s mother-in-law’s...
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It does cut the mustard
I’ve waited a few months since making this recipe to post about it. I’ve been trying mustard for a few years now, but never knew that you may want to let it be for about 8 weeks before you start to...
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Visual appeal… for soup
For some reason, when I first started cooking, I was just desprate to figure out a fantastic recipe for Chicken Tortilla soup. And then, I got scared, but I only sort of like Chicken Noodle soup so I...
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