Let’s make some bagels, can we? Yes we can! For starters, today is my birthday, and on my birthday we can do anything we want. We can eat cake for breakfast and bagels for lunch and because it’s my birthday the calories don’t count. Please remember that I have an actual degree in nutrition, so [...]
Archive for January, 2012
home made bagels
Posted in baked goods, breads, breakfast recipes, how to..., lunch, tagged bagels, cooking, food, Peter Reinhart, recipe on January 26, 2012 | 13 Comments »
tom yam soup
Posted in soup, tofu, travel, vegan, tagged cooking, food, recipe, soup, thailand, vegetarian on January 21, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Tom Yam soup. I’ve always seen this soup referred to as Tom Yum, but our instructor and recipe booklet both call it Tom Yam, so that’s what I’m going with. If you find yourself in Chiang Mai and are looking for a great cooking class, let me suggest May Kaidee’s Thai vegetarian cooking class. The [...]
Thailand – Chiang Mai
Posted in travel, tagged chiang mai, thailand, travel on January 19, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Chiang Mai was, hands down, my favourite part of the trip. Much of Thailand’s trekking industry is based out of Chiang Mai, and a short trek was high up on my must do list, as was a Thai cooking class. I definitely did not want to rent a motorcycle in busy city traffic. As it [...]
Thailand – Koh Chang
Posted in travel, tagged koh chang, thailand, travel on January 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Thailand, Thailand, Thailand . . . where to begin, but at the beginning? 12 hours before we were due to leave we got a call letting us know that our flight to Bangkok had been cancelled, but we were assured our return flight was a-okay. So we can’t get there, but we can get home? [...]
no knead bread
Posted in baked goods, breads, how to..., tagged bread, cooking, food, Jim Lahey, recipe on January 5, 2012 | 7 Comments »
We arrived home last night from our winter getaway to Thailand, and I’ve got a mountain of laundry to do and piles of pictures to sort through and groceries to buy and muffins to bake. I promise a post about our trip will be coming soon, but first lets bake some bread, shall we? I don’t [...]
