Do you like muffins? Of course you do! Here is a yummy recipe with lots of lemon flavor.
Mix together:
¾ cup white flour
¾ cup white whole wheat flour
¾ cup sugar
¾ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Lemon zest from 2 lemons
In a separate bowl whisk together:
4 eggs
2 Tbsp milk or water
1 ½ tsp vanilla
¾ cup oil
Mix the [...]
I used to suck at making bread. It would always come out too moist or too dry. Until that is, I found the Tassajara Bread Book. The basic recipe is simple and great and has never failed me. I had it memorized at one point. It tells you exactly how long to do everything such [...]
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I haven’t been doing a whole lot of cooking lately, but I’m still eating! And, more to the point of this post, drinking.
I went through Canon City a few weeks ago and picked up some DiNardo’s juice. This is a little shop off Highway 50 in Canon City and it’s worth stopping by [...]
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Bacon popcorn is not the same as bacon-flavored popcorn. Over the holidays, my man got a “thank you” gift that was a tin of bacon popcorn. We were both amused and figured it would probably taste fairly good. Popcorn is tasty, and bacon-flavored can’t be too bad. I finally got around to opening it a [...]
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………
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There is a new book out by Michael Pollen that I plan to read. In it,
“Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
When he says “eat food” he says [...]
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Welcome to the first edition of… will it work?
the issue: I had a pitcher of homemade stock that I needed to filter.
what I tried: wrapping cheese cloth around the mouth of the pitcher, securing it with a rubber band.
did it work?: scroll down below the picture to find out.
(I know the suspense was killing you) [...]
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Have you ever wanted to cold smoke some salmon, make your own sausage, or cure your own pancetta? This book covers some way old school techniques for adding flavors to meats, fish and veggies through salting, curing and smoking.
Be warned however, the recipes in this book are fatty and salty, but that’s how [...]
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