I love my many mini cutting boards. I reach for them just about every time I’m in the kitchen. They’re kind of a stumble upon tool, as I bought the first set of five when I lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles and didn’t have much counter space. Then I bought a set…
Category: Cookbook Reviews
Cookbooks I use and love.
Deviled Eggs
Happy Easter! These are the deviled eggs I made today with our boiled eggs. I added adobo sauce, cumin, low-fat mayo, mustard powder, chopped spicy pickles, chili powder and a sprig of cilantro.
Snap Cook: Make Cheese!
While in Portland, Oregon last month, I kept running into these cute little kits for making different kinds of cheese (info about getting your own to follow). One time, many years ago, I made paneer. It was good! It was also much easier than I thought it would be. Of course paneer is not aged….
Easy Potato Trick
This little nifty trick could not be more simple to make. What you see is what you get. I have to admit that I saw this somewhere on a facebook feed last week and without reading or clicking, I figured I could try on my own. Turns out the concept looks amazing, but takes little…
A Salute to Burritos!
Who loves a good burrito? I do! Routinely, when I post a picture of a great burrito on my social media sites, I get tons of responses from people who WANT THAT BURRITO! So I thought I’d collect together a hodge podge of burrito photos from my facebook wall for those seeking a few minutes of…
Tool Day: Grind
The Everything Grinder Today I’m just talking about one tool. One tool that does lots and lots of work. This is a grinder for dried spices, peppercorns, course salts and dried peppers. It is brilliant for making fresh spice blends or rubs, and when not in use, I fill it with my mixed peppercorns from…
Seed Sprouting
Always interested in new ideas and techniques, when I happened across seed sprouting at Bob’s Red Mill in Portland, Oregon recently, I had to give it a try. Based on the display at Bob’s, I figured out that all it really takes are seeds and a seed sprouter. Instead of hauling them both home, I…
Snap Cook: Cherry Preserves
I made Cherry Preserves. I did half pints in some cute jars with checkered country style lids that look pretty and modern, but with a call back to way back when. Watch for the recipe. I’ll be making my recipes available shortly. I am not sharing the recipe in this post, as this is meant…
Tool Day: Making Pizza
Here are the tools in my kitchen that make Pizza making one of our favorite things to cook in the oven or on the grill! Click the pictures to find similar tools online! Pizza Stone — It ain’t pretty, but this is our pizza stone. This is our second one, as we used our first…
Shopping List: Beef Stroganoff
On Monday, February 16, 2015 I will publish a full post about making Beef Stroganoff (update…it is here!). That is the day of “Maslenitsa” — a Russian celebration welcoming in Spring. I learned about this festival recently in a cooking class at Austin’s Russian House. But more on that later. If you’d like to make…
M Delish Boutique 