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Slow Cooker Asian Short Ribs–A Story About One Amazing Mom

I share a love of good food and cooking with my family. Though it may sound funny, food has enriched my life and given me (and continues to give me) many great memories. In my last post I told you about my dad’s creative cooking skills. I’ve also mentioned our mutual love for trying weird/unusual […]

Papa’s Potage, an ever-changing recipe

My dad is a creative cook. I think it scares my mom a little when he rolls up his sleeves and goes into the kitchen. When he was a little boy his dream was that someday when he was grown up he would have a refrigerator filled with every ingredient/topping imaginable to make the perfect […]

Slow Cooker Nikujaga (Japanese Stewed Beef and Potatoes)

I love being able to throw a bunch of ingredients in a slow cooker, forget about them, and then have dinner “magically” appear in the pot at dinner time. Yesterday I woke up craving Nikujaga (肉じゃが, literally means “meat potato”), a kind of Japanese stewed dish of beef and potatoes (and sometimes other vegetables) that […]

Baby, it’s hot in here! Make your own chili oil.

Tientsin chili peppers, have ya ever heard of ’em? Maybe not, but I bet you’ve seen them before! These are the peppers that most of you probably avoid when eating your kung pao chicken (I’m weird, I like to eat mine). These peppers are natives of the Tientsin (Tianjin) province in China. They are a […]

One Good Loaf—One Loaf Bread Recipe

About a week ago I read this post on Molly Irwin (if you’ve never visited her blog before, you should because it’s wonderful and delightfully refreshing) about her new project that she has named One Good Loaf. One Good Loaf came out of her determination to start baking a loaf of homemade bread on a […]

Kinda Corny: Homemade Candy Corn

I mentioned recently that one of my all-time favorite seasonal treats is candy corn and I make sure that we always have some in the house. A couple of you asked about candy corn, wondering what it was. So in honor of today being National Candy Corn Day (seriously, there is a holiday for everything!), […]

The Great Pizza Toss: Peter Reinhardt’s Basic Pizza Crust

I just failed Pizza Tossing 101. I think it highly likely that I’ll will be sent to Remedial Pizza Tossing and be forced to read “Pizza Tossing For Dummies.” That being said, I have found my new go-to pizza crust recipe. SO easy and SO yummy, makes six 9-12 inch crusts, and you can freeze […]

Homework Assignment: Make Crispy Salted Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies

Allowing a pregnant foodie access to the Internet is maybe a bad idea. Seriously. This weekend I read this post by Adam Roberts on his blog, The Amateur Gourmet, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head ever since (a reoccurring problem when I’m pregnant). Adam made Smitten Kitchen’s recipe for […]

Going Green with Sweet Sesame Seed Dressing

After all of the pumpkin that’s been flying around in my kitchen I figured it was time for a bit of green. So I went back to basics and made up a big bowl full of simple green salad with my favorite dressing. Growing up one of my favorite types of dressing was poppy seed […]

Famous Pumpkin Scones–just what the doctor ordered.

For my last pumpkin recipe of Pumpkin Palooza, I had a totally different recipe in mind. Then at the beginning of the week I received a comment from a Melanie, a fellow blogger and friend (that I actually had the pleasure of meeting last May!), asking if I had ever tried pumpkin scones. She explained […]

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