I arrived at my friend Kristin’s house on Saturday evening to find a large, gorgeous, and abundantly fragrant basil plant on the kitchen table. Not having the resources to shop with any frequency these days, I hadn’t considered stopping at my favorite money-sucking nursery – and I say that in the nicest possible way –… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Bread & Baked Goods
Beer Bread Revisited
The beer bread is truly remarkable for its speed, ease, and tastiness, so it wasn’t exactly begging for improvement, but the addition of some wheat flour did prompt me to post yet again, and consecutively, at that, about beer bread, so useful do I find this recipe. If you’re looking for just a wee bit… Continue Reading
Beat the Clock Beer Bread
Now, if you’re able to raise your head up from your half-drunk (the beer, not you) pint well enough that you think you can still muster a boiled dinner, you’ll be needin’ some bread to sop up some of that there ale you’ve been a-swillin’. Fear not, for even a well-sauced boozebag can handle this… Continue Reading
Chocolate Souffle Waits for No One
If you have been following my recent posts, you are probably all too aware that I have an abundance of eggs from the scared-into-laying-by-threat-of-death-chickens who reside in a palatial chicken mansion at my house. Hence, I am trying to prepare those eggs in all of the one hundred ways allegedly symbolized by the creases in… Continue Reading
Why hadn’t I thought of this sooner? Calzones for all!
When I was a kid, my mother was famous for her calzones. I’m not certain how often we actually had calzones, but it seemed like they were perpetually sitting on the counter awaiting the carving of a slice so small as to not be noticed. Mostly because the slicer was sneaking a serving. With three… Continue Reading