I’m sure I’m not the first one to make this, nor am I the first to discover that the flavors go well together. But I’ve just found out that rosemary and strawberry go well together. I was picking some alpine strawberries the other day, smelling the rosemary as I did so (they line the herb [...]
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If Life Gives You Strawberries – Make Lemonade!
Posted in Food and Cooking, Gardening, recipes, tagged Beverages, herbs, Lemonade, recipe, rosemary on 2011/07/09 | 2 Comments »
Something for Dessert
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged comfort food, cooking, Dessert, Dried fruit, fruit, recipe on 2011/01/13 | Leave a Comment »
Winter nights are for hot chocolate and warm, fruity desserts. (Only after eating all of your dinner, of course.) Yes, I guess I might as well fess up – we are dessert eaters in my house. My husband especially. And he likes something different every night. No matter how bare the freezer may be, there [...]
Rooting Around in the Kitchen
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged cooking, recipe, root vegetables, strudel, vegetables on 2011/01/06 | Leave a Comment »
Root vegetables seem to be a great winter comfort food. Maybe it’s the way they’re prepared, but there just seems to be something more satisfying about these earthy specimens than there is with say, green beans or some of the lighter fare. One of my favorite ways to prepare them is in a baked hash. [...]
Winter’s Waning Variety
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged Brussels sprout, cooking, recipe, Spaghetti Squash, vegetables on 2011/01/04 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me, or does it seem harder to come up with new ways to prepare winter vegetables? The only winter squash variety I have left is spaghetti squash. I’ve been trying to find more creative ways to use it (besides as a pasta replacement), but so far I’ve just been making favorites from [...]
Morning, again
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged breakfast, comfort food, cooking, Food and Cooking, recipe, soup on 2010/12/07 | 2 Comments »
I get tired of the same old thing for breakfast sometimes, don’t you? Oatmeal, eggs, pancakes, you know the routine. Now, I might not mind a different pastry every morning, but my conscience won’t let me eat that way. So every now and then I find myself rooting around in the refrigerator for some leftovers [...]
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