Up far too early this morning (this is becoming a bad habit that I need to break), so I decided to try my hand at adapting a biscuit recipe (Butter Swim Biscuits) to my particular dietary needs. Substituted Buttery Sticks for the butter (my favorite margarine - doesn't have a lot of excess water like some others do), and Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free ( Read more... )

Tried a new recipe this evening, from Taste of Home; Half-Homemade, a cookbook the husband got me for my half birthday last week.

( Recipe behind the cut )

It seems like almost every new recipe I see for a pasta dish wants you to use 12 ounces of pasta. Do these US-based recipe authors not shop in the same stores that do? Because the norm for most boxes I see is 1 lb of pasta, or 16 ounces. You seriously want me to measure out 3/4 of a box of pasta and save the rest? Uh-uh. It's a full box or it's ( Read more... )