**This post is brought to you by my brother-in-law, JP!** A few years ago we had this great idea. We wanted to be able to make salsa with ingredients grown in our garden. So we planted tomatoes, onions, jalapeño peppers, and cilantro.
Archives for December 2015
Old-Fashioned Gingerbread.
The world/internet has some disagreement about what “gingerbread” is…is it a house? A runaway man? Or is it a dense cake full of warm spices, preferably topped with large dollops of whipped cream? I vote #3.
The Gift of Popcorn.
In my lovely planner, where lots of plans take place, I had jotted a note to myself about putting together a “gift ideas” post. And yet here I am, the week-before-Christmas-week, with a gift idea, singular! Yay?
Easy Lemon Pie.
I made this easy lemon pie (aka: lemon icebox pie) for the first time over the summer (okay, fine, the first couple of times) – and the bright citrus flavor is so fresh and summery! But even though lemons are available year-round, they do have an actual season – late fall through the winter. It’s…
Giada’s Meatball Stew.
We love a cookin’ show around here, as my 4-year-old calls them, and I saw the episode of “Giada at Home” where she makes her hearty meatball stew a few years ago on vacation. (There’s something magical about having access to cable TV on vacation, I’m just saying.) Even though it was summer and we were…
Food for Thought #2: November
1.// Thanksgiving – or as my sister dubbed it this year, Piegiving – was a culinary success! We bucked tradition (not an easy thing to do around here, because some of us – ahem, me – really like those) and skipped the pumpkin pie. My favorite of the non-traditional pies is coming to the blog…