I mentioned making applesauce in my previous post. Here’s the recipe I use. It takes a fair bit of time so I like to do large batches.
Ingredients:
Apples
Water
Optional: Cinnamon, sugar/honey
Directions:
Wash, core, and remove bad spots from apples. Cut into quarters or smaller. I don’t remove the skins because I like the texture.
Put [...]
Note: This is an article I wrote for Boulder Valley Relocalization, but which didn’t get published. Therefore, I’m reprinting it here.
It’s amazing the number of fruit trees around Boulder that you can see when you start looking. Apples, plums, crabapples, pears–there’s a lot of fruit just hanging around. Usually, you [...]
This was pretty good… 1 carton of chicken stock, some frozen corn, 2 cans of rinsed black beans, 1 chicken breast cubed, 1 jalapeño seeded and chopped, chopped tomatoes, cilantro, various spices/herbs to taste (in order, most to least: cumin, chili powder, salt and oregano… and a few other supporting players that probably don’t need [...]
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I made two pies for Thanksgiving: Sweet Potato + Butternut Squash Pie on the left, and Pecan Pie on the right. Pecan Pie was a first for me. It was surprisingly easy and was a smashing success. (The other pie was okay, but slightly undercooked, despite lengthening the cook time by 50%). The Pecan Pie [...]
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This recipe is one of my winter favorites. Butternut squash comes into season around October, and can keep for months.
This soup is tasty, relatively quick, healthy (or at least free of added sugar and fat), and hard to screw up–the most difficult part is peeling the squash.
The below recipe makes enough to serve 4-6, [...]
my parents’ cranberry relish
“K’s” cranberry sauce
roasted yams with walnuts
mashed red potatoes
german chocolate pecan pie
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Last Sunday, we hosted the Front Range Supper Club at our place: a once-a-month get together of fellow Boulderites, Denverites, and Longmontians. We have a feast (everybody brings a dish or two) and discuss a scintillating book. This time around, my partner made these bite-size hors d’oeuvres.
How to make these beauties: 2 tubes of crescent [...]
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Only a few months ago did I realize the joys of parchment paper. I grew up making sugar cookies at Christmastime in the shape of Christmas trees, bells, boots and santas, but my mom never used parchment paper, just rolled the cookie dough right on the table with flour. Now, as a non-dairy [...]
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My favorite cookbook doesn’t treat me very well. Everything I make out of “Jamie’s Dinners” turns out looking and/or tasting completely wrong. It’s still my favorite cookbook though. The writing style and warm photography make it great. I also like their paper choice — a thicker uncoated text stock with a matte finish jacket.
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Boy oh boy, what a treat! My eyes lit up when I saw this- cake typography!? I wish I had thought of this before, too many birthday’s have come and gone without my name spelled out in cake! So ok, I’ll get to the point- this isn’t really cake, it’s actually a CD cover I [...]
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