On Saturday, I went up to Reedsburg to assist Terese Allen with a cooking class, demoing recipes from a couple of her books, for the fermentation fest. I made green tomato mincemeat bars – moist and hard to cut, but really yummy. Too bad it was such a rainy day, but I enjoyed the drive, […]
A new form of dieting? Over the weekend, I kept thinking about what if I tried to photograph everything I eat, before I eat it. I started today. This is the multi-grain cereal I just had for breakfast at work – Heidi’s recipe, but I didn’t soak it over nigh this time, and I only […]
On Monday, Mark took us girls (me and our exchange student) out for dinner for valentine’s day. It was the first Monday our local & organic Italian place was open – after years of being closed on Monday nights. It was my first day back at work with my broken toe. I gimped to the […]
So this is the year I didn’t carve a pumpkin. I bought two at the Wednesday farmers market. This morning I noticed that one of them – the $2.25 one that leaned back a little too much – had a few spots on it. I took it over to the other house for Halloween lunch […]
Better mixing instructions, new & improved filling formula. Take a look – (click the picture)
On Saturday, I put on a cupcake decorating 8-year old’s birthday party, with eight little girls. And me and one nanny and the birthday girl’s mom & dad. It was a lot of fun. I made a double batch of yellow cupcakes – it was the batter that ate New York – it should have […]
I used the Grandma’s Banana Cake recipe from Classic Home Desserts, by the late Richard Sax, one of my fave cook books. It’s supposed to be baked in a tube pan, so I should have known to really UNDER-fill the muffin cups – because it’s a cake batter that really needs the support of the […]
Sunday the vegetarian meet up group met for vegan cupcakes and board games at School Woods. I used a couple of recipes from the Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World girls, Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. In Veganomicon, they have a caramel apple recipe that I was quite taken with – it has […]