Balsamic Salmon and Succession-Roasted Salad
A throw-as-you-go roasted salad with kale, feta, and black grapes is the perfect accompaniment for simple balsamic-glazed salmon.
Category Archives: Fruits
Mishmash
Several different uses for shredded sweet potatoes: hashes, fries, and even crepes!
The Baby Food Rig
A few fun parenting hacks: warming baby food without a microwave, breaking up bananas, and keeping saggy pants on your skinny kiddos.
Combatting the Great Plague of 2013
Some natural approaches to surviving the cold and flu season, taken from personal experience.
Thanksgiving Recap 2013
An account of our gluten-free and nearly grain-free Thanksgiving dinner in 2013.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Go Gluten-Free
My personal reasons for eliminating gluten from my diet (and hopefully from that of my entire family as well).
Coconut Flour Breakfast Cakes
Souffle-like fruit-on-the-bottom cakes made with coconut flour and almost no sugar make a lovely filling breakfast on a cold morning!
Give’m Blood ‘n’ Vinegar, Wot Wot!
It’s one of those things I can’t unthink—now that I know I can make chicken stock from picked carcasses, I simply cannot resist doing so, even when I can barely squeeze another quart into the…
Povitica
The October 2011 Daring Bakers challenge was an unusual filled holiday bread called povitica; I made two gorgeous loaves filled with apples, walnuts and cinnamon.
Apple a Day
I love using every part of a purchase! In this case, the scraps from canning applesauce became apple jelly, and the cores from making dried apple rings became cider vinegar.
Honeyed Plums
Italian prune plums are halved and canned in a bath of sweet spices and honey syrup---these gorgeous preserves will be well-appreciated come winter!
Out of the Wild
From wild plums growing in the greenbelt to jars of orange jam in my pantry.
The Cat’s Away
A week's worth of dinners cooked in my mom's absence, mostly with a Mexican influence; and a recipe for watermelon salsa.
Dregs
The last grape post of the season---canning syrup and pie filling, baking pies, and straining homemade vinegar!
Ombre
Tons of grape jelly made from homemade juice strained through a pillowcase---this was quite the project!
Juicy
Preserving the grape harvest with lots of canning: jam, jelly, juice, and even vinegar!
You Can’t Do That on Blogovision
The August 2011 Daring Bakers challenge was making candy, with at least one incorporating tempered chocolate. I made white chocolate-blueberry marzipan bonbons, chocolate coconut figs, cucumber-elderflower pate de fruits, and chocolate-dipped tahini caramels.
Smoky Barbecue & Potato-Beet Gratin
Succulent smoky chicken with peach barbecue sauce on the grill still can't hold a candle to my potato-beet gratin, believe it or not!