I was thinking about using my sourdough starter to make dinner rolls last night, but I didn’t get it started in time – isn’t that the usual problem with starter bread? While I was looking at recipes though, cinnamon rolls kept showing up alongside the dinner rolls in google. I love google, it is where [...]

The weather took a turn for the cold this weekend… which is fabulous, because I have been hankering for soup, but it was just too hot! Since it is cold & rainy today, it was easy to convince the girls that we needed soup. Of course, one of them is always in the mood for [...]

Are you looking for way to make your recipes stand out? Do you want to leave your guests asking for the recipe to your latest culinary creation? Here is a short list of some ingredients that will leave them wondering what that secret ingredient is. Cinnamon Add cinnamon to your scrambled eggs – just a [...]

The end of Summer is here, and if you planted it in your garden – and the slugs didn’t eat it all – you may just have a plethora of zucchini lying around waiting to go bad.  What to do? Make muffins. Well, you can make bread if you want to, but the muffins seem [...]

For the big party last weekend I made the meat sauce… but I also made a vegetarian sauce for those that don’t eat so much meat. As today is Tami’s birthday, and she requested the recipe, here it is! olive oil 1 med. sweet onion 5 cloves garlic – minced 6 roma tomatoes 2 cans [...]

I grew up making spaghetti sauce in a large pot. You make a big batch, because that’s how you can get all of the good stuff in. Then you freeze the excess. My husband calls my sauce “Spaghetti for 40 people” because I make such a big batch. But he can’t deny that it is [...]

Smoothies, yes, but green? Why, Jennifer, why? Because they are good… and good for you! And I can’t think of a better way to camouflage some of the green leafy veggies that my kids don’t particularly *like* to eat. The basics: frozen fruit yogurt kefir 100% juice (I like kagome’s juices) mixed baby greens – [...]

I received an email feed from Smitten Kitchen the other day with something utterly delectable… a photo of food that instantaneously caused your mouth to salivate in anticipation of taking a bite of something that is on the other side of the country. Cruelty, plain and simple. What was this photograph? Bourbon Peach Hand Pies. [...]