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Nov
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Posted by kate
November 1, 2007 | 3 Comments
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The countdown has begun. Thanksgiving is nigh. All the food magazines are brimming with their annual holiday menus and meal planning tips. Who am I to stray?
This month will be all about the foodiest holiday of the year. Everyone loves Thanksgiving. As far as I know. And what’s not to like, really? We all […]
Breakfast is by far the easiest meal around here. In fact, some days I serve only breakfast foods all day because it’s easier than fighting to get my 3 year old to eat a chicken nugget or godforbid a vegetable.
Given that many of his favorite breakfast foods are sweet or have sweet syrup on top, […]
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Posted by kate
August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
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We just had my son’s 3rd birthday party. It was a big hit. I tried to take pictures of the food spread, but my camera chose that day to be out of battery power. So, no photos, but it got me thinking about kid food. For the first 2.5 years of […]
It’s one of my favorite times of year right now. Strawberry season. We belong to a CSA farm and for 2 weeks we have gotten 2 quarts of fresh-picked, native strawberries. Um. . . . YUM!! Now, for the most part these little beauties don’t make it into recipes at all, they […]
My husband loves corn muffins and corn bread. In fact he likes anything corn. He’s not big on the vegetables in general. We often debate about whether or not corn is a vegetable at all. I say it’s not and even if it is, it’s largely indigestible and loaded with sugars. And therefore, he can’t […]
There’s lots of folks in the world who can’t handle gluten. For whatever reason their bodies just can’t deal with it. These folks are lucky that they live in a time where we have lots of resources for eating gluten-free. There are some great recipes out there, and I have one here […]
Let’s continue the week’s topic with some muffin basics—things you need to know to succeed in the muffin-making world.
First, how to make nice, high-domed muffins like the ones at your favorite bakery—it’s easy. Most recipes call for your muffin tin to be 2/3 full, which is just not going to suffice. Fill it to […]
