I made french toast this morning (btw, does anyone have any recipes/suggestions for things to do with eggs? The hens didn't get the memo about laying less in the winter and we are getting 5-8 every day!). I had maple syrup, but wanted something fruity. My cookbook has a fruity syrup recipe but it looked time consuming and I didn't want the ( Read more... )

I made up this recipe and it was good! We had it for dinner tonight along with 3-cheese and spinach mac and cheese, steamed broccoli, and spicy potato salad leftover from yesterday ( Read more... )

OK, so traditionally greens are cooked with some pork, right? Except I do not eat pigs. But I tried to recreate the taste of traditional greens. I don't know how authentic tasting this is but it tastes good and is nutritious ( Read more... )

I finished another project! Since it's a test knit, I don't think I can share a picture, though. Still, that's 2 down ( Read more... )

One of the things I really miss about Honduras is the delicious tropical fruit and fresh fruit juice available everywhere. I also miss baleadas; cheap, nourishing, readily available. Since it was a cold day and my goal was not to change out of my pajamas, I decided to stay home and make some.

First, the juice:

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coconut rice, which I just made for dinner ( Read more... )

This is what I made for dinner tonight. It was so good! Although perhaps not terribly aesthetically pleasing. Actually, the bit where the trim came off the counter edge is what is not terribly pleasing.


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1. It's friday! whoop whoop ( Read more... )

My neighbor is out of town this week so she asked me to pick up her CSA box from http://www.brittfarms.net/ so it wouldn't go to waste. I realized that having fresh produce makes me a lot more excited about cooking! We're also getting lots of tomatoes from the garden, although the damn ( Read more... )

Mostly I need to document it because Tulio really liked it and it consisted of things he typically does not like (like tofu and carrots) so I need to remember how I made it.


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