Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Let me begin this with a warning. Knowing how to make a truly great Crème Brûlée at home is dangerous. My wife and I came to appreciate a good Crème Brûlée at a local restaurant. It’s a common destination for our date nights because it is close and has really good food, but mostly for the Crème Brûlée. …
Another one of my Thai takeout favorites is Pad Thai. Since the spicy fried rice turned out so well, I decided to try my hand at making Pad Thai. From my searching, I found that there are quite a few variations on this recipe, some of them are quite complicated and some are pretty basic. …
I am so sick of winter! My grill is buried under two feet or more of snow and we’d have to use the snow blower to blaze a path to get at it. I could really go for some BBQ chicken with grilled potatoes right about now. Just a little glimpse of summer would be …
Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love. Today we celebrate this recipe, which I LOVE. My mother made these cookies for all sorts of holidays for as far back as I can remember. I remember having to bring extras in my lunchbox for my friends because they too were hooked on Mom’s butter cookies. …
On Sundays I like to prepare meals that take a little longer to cook. Sometimes I choose recipes that are more involved. Not today! Lately our kitchen gets a workout on Sundays, as we bake the week’s bread and lunch treats. Eric was also bustling around the kitchen today too. When all of that was …
My apologies, we have been so slow with updates this week. Sunshine has been in short supply and beautiful pictures of our food have not been happening! We continued our quest for tasty wheat bread this week by trying this recipe from the King Arthur flour website.
We have gotten to be pretty pampered when it comes to chicken noodle soup; between canned soup, boxed stock and dried egg noodles from the pasta aisle at the store. Today I set out to do homemade chicken noodle soup the old fashioned way, use vegetables from the garden, homemade stock and even …
I got home from work today and checked the weekly recipe page and found that we were scheduled to have some chipotle popcorn chicken. I look in all of our usual places and I am not finding the recipe anywhere. Next, I do a quick google search and find a couple references to the same recipe. …
It’s almost Valentine’s Day and nothing says love quite like chocolate covered strawberries. Show your favorite person exactly how much they mean to you by making them a gift that they will adore, almost as much as they adore you! If you have never worked with melting chocolate, now is the time to start. It’s …
One of the challenges when you start baking your own bread is that you sometimes end up with bread that isn’t going to get eaten and is about to go completely stale. This is where this french toast recipe comes in. All you need is eggs, milk and your favorite flavorings. Growing up, my mother …
