Okay, so I haven’t eaten bacon in years. It was never a favorite of mine anyway, but once in awhile I think about how bacon can add a lot of salty, smokiness to things like salads or sandwiches. So when the mood strikes, I make coconut bacon, which in my opinion tastes like bacon. It [...]
I’ve never been a fan of tofu, and tempeh has always been a hard sell to me. I’ve tried cooking it in a bunch of ways, and while I’ve never hated it, I’ve never made it in a way that makes me want to make it again. Unlike homemade seitan, which I love, love, love. [...]
Smoothies are an almost daily thing for me, but I tend to get bored with the same things. Don’t get me wrong — bananas, berries, and spinach is perfectly acceptable, but sometimes it’s just not enough. I try to add different ingredients and flavorings to keep it interesting, as well as ramp up the nutrients, [...]
I am not gluten free. Let me repeat that: I am not gluten free. I like bread too much to be gluten free. I write a lot of Paleo recipes, which are gluten free, and while I’ll pass on a lot of them, sometimes I come across one that’s pretty good. Like these gluten [...]
I love sour cherries, but they are hard to find. A couple weeks ago I went to Northern Michigan with my family, and was lucky enough to pick up a few quarts at a farmer’s market. I froze them, and immediately started dreaming up ways to use them all. My first thought was jam. [...]
Baking a potato seems like something that should be easy. You pop a potato in the oven until it’s tender right? Well, right, but not always. Do you put it in foil? On a pan? Does a higher temperature bake it faster? Um, no, no, and yes, but that’s not necessarily better. If your goal [...]
When I was a kid, my favorite cake was the rainbow chip kind. It was just sprinkles in the boxed cake mix, but I loved it. I know now that it’s all the same, and that you can’t really taste the sprinkles that are baked in the cake (although, full disclosure: I don’t know when [...]
Last week, my husband opened up the cabinet we use as a pantry, looking for something. Nuts, pasta, crackers. It’s impossible to know. Especially considering I have everything under the sun in that cabinet shoved however it will fit. I guess some people might say I’m a bit disorganized. So out come several [...]
A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this recipe. Apricot. Pie. I’ve made all sorts of pies in my time. Apple, peach, pumpkin, cherry, but never apricot. Which is odd because I LOVE apricots. A few days later, I was in Whole Foods and saw a bag of apricots and bought [...]
i hate summer. yes, i do. i hate heat, bugs, cookouts, and anything else related to summer. except for one thing. produce. you’ll never find a pint of berries, a peach, or basket of cherry tomatoes in a grocery store as good as you’ll find from a local farm. i’ve tried. while fruit is [...]
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