This quick appetizer has become our new weekday staple. Its easy, healthy, and not so filling that it will fill you up before you get your dinner ready. The recipe makes a large batch that can be put into separate smaller ramekins, covered with plastic wrap and kept in the refrigerator ready to be pulled […]
Salted Bacon Roca Candy. Yum!
(Note: I wasn’t going to post this particular creation as it didn’t quite turn out the way I had intended. I wanted a chewy, “bacony” caramel and instead got a crunchy toffee. I was convinced to share otherwise by a friend who had tasted more than a few pieces and thought it would be a […]
September 3, 2010 by 3 Comments
Makin’ Bacon in the Oven
Bacon The best way to make bacon? Roast it. There is no doubt. Roasting is my favorite way to cook just about everything so it came as no surprise to me to recently discover just how good roasting works for bacon. Even cooking, no curling, no grease spatters on the counter. How bad can that […]
September 1, 2010 by 4 Comments
Asparagus Soup with Almond Milk
Sounds like the setup to a joke but its not. Who knew? Almond milk is a fairly recent discovery of mine and it has found its way into my cooking arsenal lately in all manner of ways. Every now and then I would buy a box of the stuff when I was feeling all ‘granola […]
August 31, 2010 by 3 Comments
Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream with hot fudge
Please bear with me but I am going to try to go somewhere with this ramble. First, just take a look at that ice cream! All I could say while I was stuffing it in my face was “wow, just wow.” This dish struggled against all the odds to be born…and the fact that it […]
August 27, 2010 by 11 Comments
Hamburgers, Sis Boom Style
Consider the hamburger as I do from time to time. Invariably I will overhear two people engaging in the tiring debate that rages on now and again amongst the genre’s so-called connoisseurs: [your favorite local burger chain] vs. [fill in the blank of the new arrival to town]. Which is better? The answer, as any […]
August 21, 2010 by 1 Comment
Pickled Carrots and Asparagus with Tarragon
The Picklepalooza continues… I do like pickles, and really…why shouldn’t I. Its all perfectly natural, I mean, who wouldn’t like pickle? (If I may paraphrase Valerie Perrine only slightly.) Staring down (or up) on the same pickle day in and day out, however, is sure to trend toward the unexciting so after awhile it would […]
August 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
Original Plum Torte
This torte deserve fame. “Original Plumb Torte” has been in my clipping pile for so long that I can’t even remember how it got there.
August 10, 2010 by 7 Comments
Time Travel.
Fig. and Sis. Boom. Then and Now… Ms. Fig and I attended homecoming together as high school seniors so when she suggested several months ago that we leave our spouses behind and go to our 30th reunion together it sounded like a good idea… I did do some considerable rethinking as the event drew nearer […]
August 6, 2010 by 2 Comments
Rhubarb Pickles ’cause you gotta have ’em
This jar is already half-eaten. I am now fully addicted so I’m sure it will be empty as I finish this post. I didn’t know what I was going to do with these yet I was absolutely driven to make them after realizing there was more to pickles than cucumbers. My confusion seems like a […]
July 28, 2010 by 7 Comments
