I love cranberries, so I stock up when they appear in markets in autumn. (I’m ordering some plants for the homestead, so by next Thanksgiving I may have my own!) I, of course, like making cranberry sauce, but this year I’m not home, so I decided to use my first bag of cranberries for cranberry-gingerbread [...]
Archive for the ‘dried fruit’ Category
Cranberry-Gingerbread (Pecan) Pancakes, for the morning after . . . .
Posted in baking, bread, breakfast, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dried fruit, Food, fruit, ginger, health, recipes, whole grains, tagged baking, breakfast, holiday, holidays, recipes on November 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apple Turnovers: re-purposing our tomato tart pastry dough
Posted in apple, apple butter, Arkansas, baking, cast iron, Cooking And Baking, cream, dessert, dried fruit, Food, frugal living, ice cream, nuts, pie, Southern food, sweet things, whole grains, tagged cooking, dessert, Food, fruit, recipes on September 10, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Recently I posted a savory tomato tart recipe, with the possibility of leftover pastry dough if you made an 8-inch tart. I promised that I’d give you another use for that pastry dough, and here it is: whole-grain apple turnovers. I must admit that I grew up with whole pies, not turnovers nor my husband’s [...]
Back-to-school breakfast from the garden: zucchini bread with pepitas
Posted in baking, bread, breakfast, buttermilk, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, dried fruit, Food, frugal living, gardening, kefir, organic food, organic gardening, preserving the harvest, raisins, recipes, summer squash, sweet things, walnut, whole grains, zucchini, tagged bread, breakfast, children, family, Food, recipes on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
August and September end the lazy days of slow breakfasts, but they don’t have to end good breakfasts. For a quick, healthy breakfast or afternoon snack, bake a loaf of whole-grain, low-fat, higher protein but still moist and delicious zucchini bread, chocked full of good stuff like pepitas, which contain healthy fatty acids. Take a [...]
Chicken Breasts stuffed with bleu cheese, figs, and walnuts
Posted in beets, cast iron, chicken, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, dried fruit, Food, garlic, herbs, leeks, organic food, sweet things, walnut, wine, tagged chicken, cooking, dinner, family, Food, organic food, photography, recipe, recipes on April 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I guess if I had to explain this recipe inspiration, I’d say it’s the dried figs and bleu cheese sitting in my fridge and the chicken in my freezer. I’ve been getting a tangy, creamy bleu cheese (blue cheese) from a Minnesota creamery that rivals European bleus. The figs are organic but, sadly, all the [...]
Golden Chicken with dried apricots and mushrooms
Posted in almonds, camping, cast iron, chicken, Cooking And Baking, dried fruit, Dutch oven, family, Food, onions, rice, whole grains, tagged camping, chicken, cooking, dinner, family, Food, health, photography, recipes on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow when you combine a few ingredients and a few spices from the pantry in a Dutch oven, you can get a dish that is much greater than the sum of its parts: it comes out golden brown, with its own sauce and a blend of flavors that are comforting and tangy and potentially a [...]
