For years and years and years I’ve had a pumpkin bread recipe from my mom that I love. It’s so old that it’s a photocopy of a copy that looks to have been typed on notebook on an actual typewriter. It’s one of those recipes where all you…
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I’ve been adding buckwheat to my granola for a couple of weeks now, but not until last night have I tried to eat it cooked on its own. I finished my evening last night, setting up what I’d wanted to cook today: Lemony Chickpeas, mixed beans and the…
We’ve had company over the past weekend so I’ve been busy and haven’t posted anything. I was going to say I hadn’t posted a lot, but that’s clearly a bunch of bullshit. I haven’t posted anything. I’ve made a lot, I just haven’t let all of my adoring…
Continued breaking down apples today. The first batch went into the dehydrator, because I do love me some dried apples. I got a thicker cut on them today and I think they’re going to be a little chippier tomorrow. The last batch were a little too thin. I…
After having gone out to JonaMac Orchard way out in Malta, IL, and picked up a shitload, though I think the technical term might be a bushel, of apples and other assorted goodies. I started peeling this morning and have about a peck (another technical term) of apples…
Heading out to the apple orchard to see what Fall delights we can bring home. Super-excited. I’m think pumpkin and cider are givens. What else should we get?
Okay … so try this. We took our date goo and added this wicked-good black onyx cocoa from Savory Spice to create this outlandish chocolate sauce. That mixed into some pureed Okianawan sweeet potatoes. Oh my goodness. And back the fuck off! You can’t say anything. It tastes…
Some people wonder from time to time just what one might eat on any given day. Here’s the way it played out for me today. Got up later than usual this morning and lifted some weights. By about 10 I sat down and had a bowl of my…
I’m addicted to this stuff and I can’t get enough. This is my current favorite snack and I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t have this around as my go-to when I don’t feel like making something. Here’s what I do: Ingredients: (this varies from…
We’d been reading up on the benefits of amla powder and I was wanting to get some to add into our diet. On the North side of Chicago, there are several blocks known as Little India that I thought would be a good place to seek out this…