Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Since we started our journey to make as much as we can at home and from scratch we have made quite a few different kinds of bread. We have neglected one of my favorite types of bread: the baguette. I had looked up some recipes early on, but they took days and I was …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any recipes to the blog due to a variety of factors, including lack of both time and motivation. You can thank my pager for this blog post. It kindly blasted me out of bed, just after I fell asleep. Now, two hours later, I’ve thrown in the …
Summer is in full swing and our garden is rewarding us for the work that we have put in so far. Part of our reward is rows of beautiful, fresh lettuce. We planted two different types of lettuce and ended up having some the lettuce that we neglected last year go to seed and grow …
Breakfast has been seriously lacking around here since we gave store bought bread products the ole heave ho. This weekend I had decided that my usual breakfast of yogurt, fruit and granola wasn’t going to cut it. I was about to set out on a 9 mile run and I wanted to return to a greasy bacon, egg …
One of the vegetables that we were most looking forward to from the garden is kale. We became quite fond of it when we were receiving it from our CSA last summer so we planted quite a bit of it. This time of year is prime time for kale and our garden is no exception. …
Lately I have been enjoying yogurt with granola for breakfast pretty much every day. My granola of choice has been Bear Naked Vanilla Almond Crunch. It seems good enough, has no high fructose corn syrup or anything like that, but the ingredients list seems a bit longer than I would like. Plus, when one is …
There are two foods that are synonymous with Utica, NY: chicken riggies and greens. I already covered the riggies, this time I am making Utica greens. There are many ways to make greens, the Utica way of making greens adds a prosciutto, hot peppers, bread crumbs, cheese and chicken stock and then goes in the …
Pasta comes from a box that you find at the supermarket, right? Not true, before there were supermarkets, or markets of any kind pasta was made from scratch in the home. You need only four ingredients and 99% of you have them in your home right now. The process is fairly easy, but the rolling …
I don’t eat a lot of donuts, normally. For some reason when I woke up this morning I really had a craving for them. Usually on these occasions I would have two options, go to one of the two Dunkin Donuts stores within a couple miles of the house, or to go to this great …
I am a big fan of meals that make large amounts that can be used for left over night. Stuffed shells always goes over well in our household and isn’t too difficult to prepare. Ricotta cheese isn’t my favorite so it’s taken me awhile to find a cheese ratio that works well.