As a Mormon, I don’t drink alcohol. And as a foodie, the only time that bothers me is when I want to pair a wonderful drink with a wonderful meal and have to choose between a soda or water. For…
Recipe: Pickled Cabbage
In my canning adventures, I have made a lot of wonderful discoveries. My new-found devotion to fresh salsa, the glory of canned cherries, the miracle of having homemade pasta sauce at my fingertips any night of the week. But right…
Recipe: Canning Preserved Lemons
That great big bag of lemons I was gifted had to go somewhere, and it’s always a hard decision to figure out where. Lemonade? Lemon curd? Just juice and zest and put in the freezer? This time I decided to…
What I’m Eating: Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are another thing that always ends up on the list of superfoods, that I don’t eat enough. I started eating them for lunch a couple times a week and it’s become one of my favorites. All I do…
Recipe: Peach Lemonade
Canning season is here and I’ve already been hard at work putting up gorgeous fruit and pickled vegetables, but I’m running out of shelf space. When I took up canning, I was so impressed with the result and my own…
Recipe: Cinnamon Tortilla Chips
This is my favorite last minute, want to impress, unexpected company, on a budget dessert. If you’re like me and always keep tortillas in your fridge and ice cream in your freezer, you will never be more than five minutes…
Pea Pancakes with bacon and sour cream
My family will almost never eat vegetables. And when they will eat them, there’s a very short list of which ones they’ll eat. When I first heard about the trend of hiding vegetables in other foods through purees I got…
Pistachio Lemon Bars with Gingersnap Crust
I mentioned in my lemon curd post that I’d come up with a lemon bar idea, only I promised it a week later. A month later’s the same thing, right? Trust me, it’s worth the wait. When Martha Stewart published…
Candy Bar Cheesecake
I think I might have married an evil genius. After years of pestering him to get a hobby, he takes up baking. Out of all the baking he’s tried his favorite thing to make is cheesecake. And now he decides…
Recipe: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Other than my own chocolate cake, I’m not really big on them. For my birthday I usually request a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Those crunchy bits, with the chocolate caramel…..excuse me. I wandered off for a second. For snacking,…