It's asparagus season! And, while I can eat spear-grass steamed with lemon juice pretty much forever, T. wants a few different options.

So we made Creamy Asparagus Soup, from Cook's Country, April/May 2010
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For Easter Sunday, as a change from the Incredible Simple Cake we made for St. Patty's Day, we made a "traditional bread" that involved milk, eggs, leavening, sugar, and rum (as well as fruit and the normal ingredients ( Read more... )

T. and I like cooking for the holidays.

We really do. It's a fun excuse to try something we don't normally do. Or something we like doing that's a lot of work.

We have never made soda bread before, so we decided we would try that this time. We went with this site. I think it's a bit preachy, and did not attempt to verify the veracity (heehe ( Read more... )

On weekends when we're feeling like taking the time, we like to eat steel cut oats. They're chewier and earthier tasting than rolled oats, but they can be very time-consuming (and really irritating to do in the microwave. Boil-overs everywhere!)

This is one of our go-to recipes, modified from The Kitchn's Baked Pumpkin Steel-Cut Oats ( Read more... )