Month: September 2012

This week the Muy Bueno cookbook arrived in my mailbox. I’ve been following the author’s blog for a while and have been waiting for the actual cookbook with much excitement. When it arrived I immediately dug in and started reading it cover to cover. There are so many things I like about it but perhaps […]

My fall CSA boxes started arriving this week and I’ve still got squash from the summer CSA boxes to use up. In order to make room for the new stuff that started showing up on Thursday I decide to make a nice fall squash bread last weekend. Last year at the holidays I made this […]

At last the fall CSA has started! I picked up my first box yesterday and it had so many awesome goodies! cherry tomatoes green beans summer squash zucchini eggplant cucumbers baby greens mix of arugula and mizuna micro greens green peppers jalapeno peppers We immediately used the cherry tomatoes in a pasta veggie saute and […]

[singlepic id=251 w=320 h=240 float=left] So I had this brilliant idea that instead of making a special separate trip to the only grocery store that sells nice healthy wraps, I’d make my own flat bread from scratch to put use for my sandwiches this week. I wanted the dough to be full of fiber but […]

One of my favorite times of the day is my lunch break. One reason is that I often make something snazzy for lunch. But another is I typically peruse my cooking reading material and try to get ideas and choose my next experiment or project. Some of what I read is print, some electronic. For […]

So I promised my coworkers lemon bars since I’m going to visit them this week. However, I got busy this weekend and ended up making them at 9pm last night. The recipe I was using comes from my grandmother and its really Lemon Pecan Bars. However I hit a couple snags when I went to […]

This weekend I realized just how much my freezer is bursting. One of the chief things consuming space is pears from the OMG pear tree. I harvested this years but still hadn’t gotten ride of all the ones I froze last year – meh. The issue with frozen pears is that if you slice them […]