Category: Experiments

[singlepic id=258 w=320 h=240 float=right] Tonight I decided to use some of the lemons from my thorny lemon bush to make Lemon Pepper Pork Kabobs. Often people use a dried mix to add lemon pepper flavor. I have a nice dried lemon pepper blend from Penzeys Spices that I like to use on fish. However, […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

Made kofta kabobs and grilled veggies for dinner tonight. Only got 3/5 star rating from spouse. He said they’d be better with sauce. Like tzatziki or something, which I found interesting because I gave special care to NOT over cook them so they would be moist. My personal opinion – they were moist enough but not […]

Sometime this summer I decided that the cost of healthy frozen treats was too much and I wanted to make my own. Since then I’ve been experimenting with making various fruit bars, creamsicles and other frozen treats in the popsicle family. I bought two different types of popsicle molds made by Tovolo: one was bar […]

I decided to be ambitious for dinner today. I was feeling ambitious and I wanted to experiment and make something that looks fancy. To help save time so I wouldn’t have to do all the work at the end of the day, I pre-roasted the vegetable toppings eggplant zucchini hatch chiles shredded the manchego cheese […]

[singlepic id=199 w=320 h=240 float=right] Tonight I wanted to try a new recipe that I put together all by myself. Several weeks ago I made an Asian Pesto using the Thai Basil from my garden. I ended up with more than I could use in a single instance. So I froze a container with the […]

This week’s CSA box contained something I’ve never encountered before; purple hulled peas. I didn’t really know what to do with them but seeing as I forgot to buy hummus to use in my lunch sandwiches this week, I decided that perhaps I should try to make hummus with them. I got the idea from […]

So zucchini has been a prominent feature in the last two week’s CSA boxes and I’ve been having trouble using it up. The classic answer to “what do I do with so much zucchini” is make zucchini bread. However, there were two reason this wouldn’t work for me. I needed vegetables to go with my […]