limoncello mint sorbet
I dug into my photo archives and came out with six days' worth of frozen treats. (Please forgive any questionable photography.) Last time: strawberry lemon sorbet. Next up: limoncello mint ...
strawberry-lemon sorbet
Though the window air conditioning unit we recently purchased has most likely saved our lives, we're still not quite immune to the evil temperatures lurking just outside our door. And this is ...
strawberry shortcakes
It was a beautiful afternoon for a country drive out to Washington Farms to pick strawberries. As I was walking down the dusty road from my car to their open-air white picket stand I could smell ...
coconut mango cake with fresh strawberries
Let's say you went on a 100 kilometer bike ride through the countryside. Let's say it's your birthday. Let's say you're a lunatic who raced 80 laps around a 1 kilometer course at speeds approaching ...
oven-baked french fries
Did you know that you can have fresh, crispy french fries at home without frying? Yeah, you probably did. It took me 27 years to figure that one out. There are a couple of recipes out there ...
chocolate stout cupcakes w/dulce de leche frosting
This cupcake was my creation for a certain contest that required the utilization of chocolate plus one or more of ingredients off a large list that included things like beets and bee pollen and ...
tomato potato focaccia
I bake bread almost every night. Last night I made, deep breath, seven loaves of mixed grain, five cinnamon raisin swirl, eight white, ten whole wheat, six cranberry pecan, five jalapeno ...
spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese
That last post made me all nostalgic. I'd like to do some posts on family and food and memories; all I need to do is traverse a couple hundred miles on the trail of some old photos. No biggie. ...
oatmeal chocolate cherry pecan cookies
Reader, meet one of my favorite cookies. The fact that this cookie made it to the favorites list took me by surprise; I've never been an oatmeal lover. Must have been the butter and brown sugar ...
quinoa taco salad
I could tell you all about quinoa and its significance to the ancient Incas and their recipe for War Balls; about its complete amino acid profile and impressive disease-fighting capabilities. ...
chard with garlic and lemon
Bunches upon bunches of bright, beautiful rainbow chard sat smack dab in the middle of the produce section, on sale no less. Enticing, enchanting, how could I refuse their colorful, Summery lure? ...
homemade almond milk
One of my favorite ways of harnessing almonds' nutritive superpowers is grinding them into almond milk. The store-bought stuff is fine, yes, but this homemade version is pure, smooth, rich and ...
chocolate peanut butter
The lovely Deb, of smittenkitchen.com, always posts great recipes but there are a couple that stand out in my mind; recipes that lured me in with just a picture, induced wild fits of drooling and ...
espresso granita
This recipe is based on espresso. Espresso is pretty great. Slushies are pretty great too. Espresso + slushy = unstoppable force of awesome greatness. So, you stir together some espresso or ...
gluten-free peanut butter cookies
It all started with a simple recipe. 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 egg Stir. Bake. Eat. So easy, I had a pan in the oven in under 10 ...
asparagus, tomato, and orzo salad
Asparagus is in season 'round here. 'Round here being Georgia, by the way. We like to either lop off bits of words or smoosh 'em all together 'round heeyuh in these parts, ya'll. I'm not a native ...
crème brûlée
Hi there. Here we are, around post #11 or so. I haven't told my people about this here blog yet. I'm a little nervous. Nervous that it's going to be like a teenage journal, in that when you're ...
blackened tofu caesar salad
The caesar salad comes from the gorgeous Zuni Cafe Cookbook. The blackened tofu is mine, all mine. I'll do my best to write coherent instructions for it. I'm new to the whole ...
homemade boullion
That crazy looking concoction up there is homemade boullion. A brilliant, though seemingly obvious in retrospect, alternative to those odd, bland, dehydrated boullion cubes you can purchase at ...
black bean chili
I'd intended to post this soup as a nice recipe to bridge the gap between the chill of early spring and the hell that most people refer to as Summer. A warm, hearty chili complemented by a ...
gluten-free crackers
I was padding around kitchen the other night, tunes on, things happening in the oven, dishes everywhere. The contents of the coffee grinder had been evacuated in favor of some quinoa and millet; ...
spinach, strawberry, and feta salad with poppy seed dressing
I'll keep it short. If I knew when I was going to die and my last meal, for some sick, inexplicable reason had to be a salad, this would be
orange-cornmeal cake with strawberry-rhubarb compote
Spring has sprung, and that means a couple of things. Strawberries. Rhubarb. Feeling like a creep because you're crouched in the azalea bushes with a camera when the FedEx guy pulls ...
cream cheese cinnamon rolls
Ahhh. Hello, Cinnamon Rolls. I remember the morning I made you as if it were yesterday. The year was 2010. The month was April. The time was a hair before the buttcrack of dawn on a dark, ...
spicy mac and cheese
There are some crazy things happening with the colors in this photo that I can't even begin to address: But I needed it to show you a couple of things. Like...crackly, cheesy crust. Creamy ...
not banana bread
Almost a year ago to the day, I was on a quest for the perfect banana bread. Ideas for a blog were floating about my brain, and a bunch of bananas were rotting on the counter. My mission became ...