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How to Make Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies
A fabulous way to turn sugar cookies into gorgeous Christmas Tree gifts. They look fabulous, taste great, and are fun and easy to make. They are pretty time intensive, but the result is fabulous. These were inspired by Wedding Cake Cookies for wedding favors, which are blogged here. I credit my fabulously creative aunts for the idea! You’ll basically need a big batch of sugar cookies, cut in gradiat…
Carrot Vichyssoisse (or in Kid-Friendly Terms, “Cheese” Soup!)
It’s soup time again! The weather has definitely been chilly and soup-weather the past few days… This is a favorite ‘go-to’ meal in our house… Easy, affordable, and tasty on a cool winter day. It would also make a great appetizer for a dinner party! It’s healthy and low fat as well… It’s basically a carrot & potato soup, served hot (I know, vich…
Sweet Potato Casserole
…perfect for Thanksgiving! I don’t know if sweet potatoes are on your typical Holiday menu, but they always are on mine. This is an easy and quite tasty dish, that is very kid friendly too. My 5 year old loves it. I actually made 2 different versions of this dish this weekend… once for dinner at a friend’s house, and again for The Boy’s class Thanksgiving lunch at school. (…
A Waffled Croque Madame
The Novice Chef is one of my fave food blogs! Check out this idea: What is the difference between a Croque Madame and a Croque Monsieur? Eggs. It’s how I always tell them apart…and the easiest way to remember. A Croque Monsieur is basically a type of bread, a type of swiss cheese, and ham. A Croque Madame is all of that, but with a fried or poached egg on top. Which is exactly why women are better than men a Croque M…
How to peel ginger root
If you ever cook with ginger, you know how much of a difference it can make to use fresh ginger root instead of that dried powder stuff. The tricky part about using fresh ginger, though, is peeling it. It’s so bumpy and irregular that if you try to use a knife to cut away the skin and knobs, you’ll end up left with a small rectangle of gingery goodness and a lot of waste on the cutting board. That is, of c…
Asian Oven Barbequed Drumsticks
This was one of those happy accident recipes, that I wasn’t expecting much from, but was happily surprised with the result. I had roasted vegetables planned for dinner, and I figured that the men in my life (picky husband and the child with strange tastes) would rebel if there wasn’t also some meat on the table. I had these drumsticks (from the “Chicken on a Budget” post) and I ne…
Spiced Pecan Butternut Squash Bread w/Yogurt Cheese Frosting
You may notice, that I’m not one to go making up new recipes from scratch, but I do love to take someone else’s recipe and take it off on a tangent that I consider healthier or just because I don’t have whatever ingredient is called for – aka improvising. Sometimes it turns out that that’s a good tangent and sometimes, well, not. This time, it turned out pretty damn good i…
Easy Homemade Falafel
When I was in graduate school in Chapel Hill, NC, I lived right outside of downtown Chapel Hill. I was pretty much within walking/biking distance of the campus, and I spent a lot of my time in the downtown area, frequenting the many restaurants and shops on Franklin Street. One of my favorite little eateries was a Greek/Mediterranean place that had the best hummus, greek salads, falafel and baklava. I wou…
Muscadine Wine Poached Pears
[Originally published 2-18-2010] I had beautiful Bosc Pears in my organic produce box this week and decided to try some poached pears. One of my favorite cookbooks is Clean Food by Terry Walters and I found a poached pear recipe there that I adapted to what I had on hand. We make our own Muscadine Wine and thought it would be quite the thing to poach our pears, and boy were we right! These can be served war…
How to make fancy chocolate curls
I needed something fancy to decorate the equally fancy chocolate pie I was making for Valentine’s day. I really like the look of a mound of chocolate curls haphazardly sprinkled over the top of a dessert, so I gathered my ingredients and quickly threw some together. Ingredients 2 oz. semi-sweet chocolate 1 teaspoon vegetable shortening (I have done this with organic, non-hydrogenated shorteni…
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