Nothing smells like home-baked bread on a cold winter afternoon–or any time, now that I think about it! Thank goodness making bread at home is easy and even quick, if you just leave the dough on its own as it rises (and why wouldn’t you?). Today we’re going to make a remarkably soft but also [...]
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Soft but Hearty Whole-Wheat and Oatmeal Bread (plus bonus doughnuts!)
Posted in appetizer, baking, bread, breakfast, butter, camping, cast iron, Cooking And Baking, dinner, dinner, Food, frugal living, herbs, organic food, recipes, seed, vegetarian, walnut, whole grains, tagged baking, bread, breakfast, family, Food, recipes on January 23, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Chocolate Cashew Bark: sweet, slightly salty, decadent toffee
Posted in almonds, baking, butter, chocolate, Christmas, Christmas food, dessert, Food, ice cream, nuts, recipes, sweet things, vegetarian, tagged baking, dessert, Food, holiday, holidays, recipes on December 12, 2010 | 8 Comments »
One of my favorite things about the Christmas season is making offerings from kitchen and heart for friends and family. A consistent favorite among recipients not just for gifts but also gatherings is my cashew bark, a confection of chocolate, salty nuts, butter, and sugar. Heat transforms the butter and sugar into a crisp toffee. [...]
Cleaning out the freezer: bread pudding with apples and cranberries
Posted in apple, baking, bread, butter, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dessert, frugal living, fruit, walnut, whole grains, tagged baking, dessert, Food, recipes on November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently been on a mission to re-organize and clean out our freezers. I know we have things that have been in the arctic depths too long. The other day on a clean out I found some sweet bread (coffee cake remnants?) that I had frozen in chunks. I tasted it. Hmmm. It was okay. [...]
Savory Tomato Tart with caramelized onions and fresh basil
Posted in appetizer, baking, breakfast, butter, cast iron, cheese, chile, Cooking And Baking, dinner, dinner, Food, frugal living, gardening, herbs, leeks, nuts, onions, organic food, organic gardening, recipes, seed, tomato, whole grains, yogurt, tagged breakfast, cooking, dinner, pie, recipes on August 29, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Over the past week, a pile of tomatoes accumulated on our kitchen counter. They were tasty and ripe, but a lot of them were also ugly. Some of them had split, while others had fallen victim to tiny predators, which took bites out of each tomato and moved on to the next. I didn’t have [...]
Squash Casserole, without opening a can
Posted in butter, cheese, comfort food, cream, dinner, dinner, eggs, family, Food, gardening, onions, organic food, organic gardening, preserving the harvest, recipes, Southern food, summer, summer squash, whole grains, tagged dinner, Food, recipes on August 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Recently a Canadian reader, Anita, who has fallen in love with Southern food asked me for my squash casserole recipe. I said I’d be happy to oblige but would need a few weeks for two reasons: first, the squash crop around here was in the summer lull (argh, squash bugs!), but most importantly because I [...]
Homemade Peach Cobbler: simplifying my Georgia peach grandmother’s recipe
Posted in apple, baking, blackberries, blueberries, butter, cast iron, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dessert, family, Food, ice cream, organic food, peaches, Southern food, sweet things, vegetarian, whole grains, tagged cooking, dessert, family, Food, recipes, summer on July 21, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I can’t get enough of summer fruit. Every day I gorge on melons and berries, knowing that their days in my farmers’ market and garden are limited. It’s peaches, though, that not only make me know it’s summer but that also take me back to my roots. There simply is nothing in the world like [...]
Roasted Vegetables Fusilli with Italian Sausage and Goat Cheese
Posted in beets, butter, cast iron, cheese, chile, comfort food, Community Supported Agriculture, Cooking And Baking, CSA, dinner, dinner, Food, frugal living, gardening, herbs, Italian, leeks, mushrooms, onions, organic food, organic gardening, pasta, red pepper, red peter pepper, sausage, sweet things, turkey, vegetarian, tagged dinner, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers know I’m all about using what we grow here, in season. Fortunately, some foods stay seasonal months after you’d think possible, such as the butternut squash that I picked in early November and kept in a cool room for winter, preserving it for our use last night. For dinner we ate roasted butternut [...]
Roast Turkey and Wild Rice Soup with leeks, carrots, celery, beans, and chile
Posted in acorn squash, apple, beans, butter, carrots, celery, chicken, chile, Community Supported Agriculture, cranberries, CSA, frugal living, health, herbs, leeks, locavore, rice, soup, whole grains, winter squash, tagged cooking, dinner, economy, family, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’re still polishing off the wonderful pasture-raised turkey that I got from Falling Sky Farm for Thanksgiving. You may remember that we ate a lot of turkey eat fresh then, but I also broke it down enough immediately to freeze some in various serving sizes. Today I’m going to use about four ounces of the turkey along [...]
Whole-Wheat Angel Biscuits: a healthier version of a Southern favorite
Posted in appetizer, apple butter, bacon, bread, breakfast, butter, buttermilk, Cooking And Baking, Food, frugal living, ham, kefir, lettuce, organic food, Southern food, tomato, turkey, whole grains, tagged bread, breakfast, Food, health, history, recipes, Southern food, whole grains on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every now and then I get a hankering for an old Southern favorite. This week it was angel biscuits, also known as “honeymoon biscuits” because with yeast, baking, and baking soda, they are just about guaranteed to rise, even for novice bakers. The original recipe featured ingredients we don’t use for health reasons–like lard or [...]
