The Daring Cooks Challenge:  Nut Butters
[17 Jul 2010 | 9 Comments | ]

The July 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Margie of More Please and Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make their own nut butter from scratch, and use the nut butter in a …

let’s ramp things up, shall we?
[16 Jul 2010 | 7 Comments | ]

Ok, guys and gals. It’s time for me to get this show on the road again, isn’t it? I have to admit that lately I’ve been flailing around with the blog a bit. I’ve lost focus for the content here and I …

asparagus and red potato salad
[13 May 2010 | 7 Comments | ]

[Printable recipe at the bottom of the page!]
It’s that time of year again – fresh, green, bright asparagus spears are all over the place. I love asparagus in pretty much any form; steamed, grilled, roasted, baked. But every now and then I want …

roses
[12 May 2010 | One Comment | ]

It’s not food related, but I had to share an image of the roses outside my front door right now. The climbing rose that I planted when I first moved into the townhouse 5 years ago has gotten large enough to train up the …

artichokes
[10 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

Sunday at the grocery store I saw the most gorgeous artichokes on sale for $1.50 each.  It was all I could do to not buy 10 of them.  Have I mentioned that artichokes are one of my favorite things?  I know some people think they’re …

rave – atlantafresh greek yogurt
[16 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted a rave on the blog. Then again it’s been a long time since I’ve found anything (food, kitchen gadget, or otherwise) that makes me go “wow!” This … this was one of those things.

A …

asparagus soup
[28 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

I can’t remember where I found this recipe, but it’s been saved in my “keepers” folder for a while.  The original recipe calls for leek and a few other things that I didn’t happen to have around.  So I made a substitution, an addition, and …