I’ve been working on homework all day, but I’m taking a break to stretch my brain and eat some cake. I had big plans of making a heart-shaped red velvet cake with cream cheese icing (from scratch!) last night as part of Kyle’s Valentine’s Day gift. When I got home from work yesterday, [...]
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(Portobello) Steak and Potatoes
While we were in New Orleans recently, Kirby made these portobello mushrooms for Dawn and me that were really wonderful. Of course he didn’t follow a recipe, but between the basic rundown he gave me of how he made them and the information I gleaned from hovering around him in the kitchen, I [...]
Meyer Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
I’ve been struggling to figure out what to do with those beautiful Meyer lemons I picked up at Johnny Becnel’s while in New Orleans last weekend. I wanted to make something that didn’t require too much work (we made Chickpea Cutlets from Veganomicon for dinner last night, which are fairly time-consuming by themselves) that [...]
Another Tomato Soup Recipe
There’s a threat of ice and snow sometime between midnight and 3 am, and when it snows around here everything completely shuts down. (I’m keeping my fingers crossed about work tomorrow.) We really need groceries (like, haven’t bought groceries since before Christmas), but whenever there’s a winter weather warning everyone runs to the [...]
Homemade Holidays: Cookie Mix in a Jar
When I first heard of cookie mix in a jar, I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever. Admittedly, I am pretty idealistic when it comes to things like this, and I didn’t take into consideration a lot of things. First and foremost, I didn’t think about whether the recipes offered up in these [...]
The Best Banana Bread Recipe of All Time
I feel very confident that this is the only banana bread recipe I will ever use or need to use. I’ve had it so long I don’t remember where I got it (my grandmother? my neighbor? my aunt?), and it really is a breeze to make. Maybe it’s not the best thing in [...]
Asparagus Potato Soup
I didn’t fall into a well or anything, but it’s finals week around here and I’ve been pretty sick with an ear infection. I could probably handle one or the other, but the combination rendered me pretty worthless for a few days. But I’m back and medicated and taking my last final in [...]
Red Soup!
I got this recipe from a friend about a year ago, and I love it so much that I make it a point to keep the ingredients on hand at all times. Red soup is a really good thing to make on busy, cold nights when I want something filling but don’t have a lot [...]
Spaghetti Squash Casserole
I didn’t think it was possible to love spaghetti squash any more than I previously did. I won’t lie: the long stretch of hot months between last year’s trip to the pumpkin patch and this year’s was filled with a lot of noodly, marinara-drenched daydreams. I had just two big squashes left over [...]
Homemade Vegetable Stock: A Great Base for all the Soups You’ll be Making this Winter!
I have been making my own vegetable stock for the last couple of years. Basically, I compile my the leftover vegetable odds and ends (onion and garlic skins, carrot ends and peels, celery butts, etc) and whatever I have sitting in the freezer that I know I just won’t use (like one piddly little [...]
