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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
no frills apple butter
Posted in dips and spreads, gluten free, how to..., travel, vegan, tagged apples, cooking, food, recipe on October 21, 2011 | 8 Comments »
This post was supposed to be up a week ago, but somehow life happened and the post didn’t. One day I’ll learn to schedule posts. Last weekend we popped over from Stockholm to Amsterdam where we had a few days of glorious weather and Paul went for a wee (26 mile) run. He had a great [...]
perfect hard boiled eggs
Posted in eggs, how to..., lunch, mains, misc, tagged cooking, eggs, food, hardboiled eggs, recipe on September 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This is not a recipe as such, but more a suggestion and a favourite technique of mine. Making really good hard boiled eggs is one of those things that eluded me for years and years. I would try to make them but inevitably they would end up way over done or (in my opinion much [...]
baked ricotta
Posted in gluten free, how to..., lunch, mains, misc, sides, tagged cooking, dairy, food, how to, recipe, ricotta, vegetarian on July 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »
On this recent post I wrote for Foodists I shared a recipe for grilled polenta. There was a comment was that grilled polenta seemed like a wonderful way to include vegetarians at a barbecue, and, reading it I thought, well yes, and no. Grilled polenta, while fun to make and eat and absolutely delicious, isn’t [...]
how to cook dried beans
Posted in beans, how to..., misc, tagged beans, cooking, food, how-to, recipes, vegetarian on February 26, 2011 | 18 Comments »
A little while ago I posted this recipe for Next Level Hummus, which calls for 4 cups of cooked chick peas. My lovely and talented friend Christa sent me a tweet with a gentle reminder that although I had called for cooked beans, I hadn’t included any instructions for actually cooking the beans. I told [...]
how to process a pumpkin
Posted in how to..., misc, tagged cooking, food, how to, how-to, pumpkin, recipes, vegan, vegetarian on October 19, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Chances are pretty good that you’re in possession of a pumpkin right now, and if you’re not, you probably plan to be shortly. Maybe you’ve already strapped on your gumboots and been out to your local pumpkin patch, or maybe you’ve picked up a pumpkin or two at your favourite farmer’s market. Consider this less [...]
