I've always been a potato girl. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. I can't get enough. I recently had my first butter braised baby yukon gold potatoes at Fore Street in Portland, ME when John and I went up for Valentine's Day this year. I'd been meaning to find a recipe and finally have!

While laid up this week I saw an episode of Rachael Ray ( Read more... )

I thought to bring something homemade over to my grandparent's house last minute. As I do when I want to make something delicious, I searched smitten kitchen's site for the most abundant ingredient in the house: apples.

Immediately I had my answer: Gingerbread Apple Upside Down Cake

Need I say more? The cake is warm, perfectly spiced, and delicious.


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I made Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Oat Bread! I used a combination of recipes (this one & this one) and just winged it ( Read more... )

These aren't exactly from my recipe box, I took them from Brendan Brazier's book called The Thrive Diet. Basically these are small, easily digestable, workout fuel. You can eat them during a workout to provide energy in a simple form that goes to work immediately. The recipe for the bites are here ( Read more... )

In January I took a stab at Alton Brown's recipe for homemade protein bars. They were ok but honestly tasted a lot like chalky/floury protein bars, not delicious and palatable like I wanted them to be.

So after rummaging around for another recipe and reading up A LOT on the benefits of a whole food nutritional bar, I combined several concepts to ( Read more... )

1) Chocolate Chip Blondies

I LOVE this recipe Mel sent me ages ago. I've made it so many times but tweak it at each go around. They always come out moist and sweet. One of my favorite go-to recipes.


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Unsure of what to do with the teeny pears in my CSA share this week, I took smitten kitchen's mom's apple cake and tweaked it a bit to make this delicious apple pear bread bread.


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I made two things this weekend from farmer's market veggies that are for winter storing! Gotta love nomming on farmer's market goodies in the winter. Preserving is cool, guys!

Saturday John & I went to Penzey's in Arlington to check out spices. I got pickling spices! I added a little bit to my normal pickle making mixture of salt, pepper, sugar, and ( Read more... )

What to do with those peaches from my CSA share?

Of course smitten kitchen had the answer, peach hand pies!


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I had an abundance of time to test recipes this weekend. May is going to be a busy month so I spent my one free weekend doing what I love best: cooking!

Recipe Round Up:

1) Fresh Broccoli Salad based on Alton Brown's recipe here


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