Caramel Corn made with Beer Jelly courtesy of guest blogger and Twin. She proclaims to love beer (we both do!) and as I recall her love affair with beer began with rich and full flavored beers like stouts. I have a love of popcorn. I have a love of beer. It was only a matter …
Winter Grain Salad
Grain salad is a perennial favorite of mine (see further proof here & here). Tweeked for winters’ offerings, this grain salad features nutty wild rice harvested in Canada, locally grown spinach, and my own butternut squash. When blended together, rustic grains and veggies make a nutrient packed satisfying dish that is hearty, not heavy. I …
No-Knead Pizza Crust
Here is the pizza crust that we have been eating all week! I was so happy with the results that I made it two days in a row. This crust has served as a vehicle for cheese, tomato sauce, sausage, shrimp, cilantro pesto, onions, kale, even fig jam! My new favorite pie is topped with …
Peppermint Fudge & Filling
This fudge recipe is something I came across years ago. I must have jotted down the ingredients and forgot about source or steps. Actually it might be one of those where I made up the fudge, thought it was awesome, and then tried to recall what I had just done to achieve the awesome results. …
Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Like pig candy only better!! While making these bacon cookies I was a wee bit skeptical of my own decision making skills and it must have shown. When I asked Tall Dark and Handsome how much bacon I should add to the cookies he said, “What does the recipe call for?” I said “What recipe?” …
Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins
In need of comfort food? I am. Accident and injury prone me has been laid up yet again this year. I swear I'm not a complete klutz! Not being able to do things for myself is a huge downer because I am pretty sure that I can do anything and everything when healthy. Lucky for …
Sprouting Lentils
I have been so busy making jelly that I rarely cook a real meal these days. My Suzie-Homemaker score must be tanking. While I make Potlicker beer jelly, Food in Jars Rhubarb with tea jam, and Tart and Sweet’s Orange Blossom jam, Tall Dark and Handsome eats frozen pizza and I reach for what is …
Niçoise Stuffed Eggs
Now that it is BBQ weather, parties are planned and our social scene is booming! Lately, when we go to a party, I bring a few jars of jelly or something else from my canning pantry. I am beginning to wonder if my friends are tired of me trying out new jelly flavors on them. …
Garlic-Orange Soy Marinade
The weather has been so warm here in New England that I could almost be fooled into thinking it was summer. Around here, March would normally be considered “mud season.” Mud season is late winter or early spring when the snow melts. The ground is still mostly frozen so snow melt can not be absorbed …
Baking soda III: Make Play Clay
Baking Soda I Baking Soda II Two years after Dr.Church’s retirement from Dwight and Co. Dr. Church helped his sons develop Church and Co. where they marketed their product under the name Arm and Hammer. Dwight and Co. and Church and Co., while in competition with each other, were still family. So in 1869 the …
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