This multigrain bread recipe is versatile enough to incorporate a range of nuts, seeds and grains according to your taste. I have successfully made the bread with a mixture of kibbled wheat and rye, buckwheat, poppy seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and coarse cornmeal.
Kitschy Vintage-Style Jessie Steele Kitchen Apron – Review
Apron collecting is one of my favorite pastimes. Apparently it has become interesting to other people too, because finding vintage aprons in good shape seems to have become next to impossible in my area.
A How-To Guide to Blanching and Peeling Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a fast-multiplying garden vegetable and can be used in a variety of ways. When your tomatoes are ripening faster than you can eat them, take an afternoon to blanch and peel them for future use. This way, when recipes call for crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce, you’ll always have some on hand!
How to Make Homemade Freezer Salsa
When it comes time to pick tomatoes from your garden, take an afternoon and make some homemade freezer salsa. This is a great how-to for those who are beginners at making and freezing food. This salsa recipe is great for dipping or for use in other recipes. It is easy to make and oh so tasty!
Bombay Sapphire Dry Gin — Review
Bombay Sapphire® is a dry gin imported from England. If you’re looking for a gin gift, Bombay Sapphire is a good choice, with its clean taste and delectable blue bottle. With a recommended retail price of $24 for 750ml (25 oz), it’s also fairly inexpensive.
Grill Charms – Review
If you grill for people other than yourself, it’s likely that you will need to adjust your cooking to suit different tastes. This is sometimes an arduous process, involving cutting marks into what you’re grilling, trying to cook different sizes and cuts at the same time, or even the dreaded “try to remember which ones are medium and which are medium well” that I frequently employ. But now there’s a better way! Charmed Life Products, LLC sent me a review pack of Grill Charms (Available at http://www.grillcharms.com/).
An E-Cookbook Review: Cooking for The Newly Unemployed
Cooking from scratch may not appeal to everyone, but for those who have lost their jobs, it may be a necessity. Jean Norton, author of the new e-cookbook, Cooking for the Newly Unemployed, offers an interesting collection of recipes that are simple, healthy, and help save money on food!
What To Do With Beets
Canned beets, pickled beets, grated beets, and even beet cake and dyes. If you’re desperate to use the fall harvest or you simply love beets, here are a few new ways to use all of that fresh fall produce.
Easy Chocolate Cake Recipes
A chocolate cake is the ultimate dessert. Here are two easy and simple recipes to create a yummy chocolate cake in next to no time and with minimal effort.
Better-For-You Banana Muffin Recipe
Making use of the ripe bananas on your counter is easy when you bake banana muffins. Thankfully, these muffins are even better for you as I have included some healthier alternatives to basic ingredients, as well as a reduction in sugar. I added flax, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, and substituted unsweetened applesauce for some of the oil, reducing the fat content. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips for those of you with a sweet tooth! This recipe makes approximately 30 muffins when the muffin cups are filled halfway. They are very soft and chewy and freeze well.
Baking Basics: Understanding Baking Ingredients
Baking can be a joyful and fulfilling experience. Here is an easy-to-understand explanation of common baking ingredients.
“Home Cooking” and “More Home Cooking” with Laurie Colwin: Finding My Favorite Cookbooks
Before “Julie and Julia,” there was Laurie Colwin, whose lovely prose and gentle advice in “Home Cooking” (1988) and “More Home Cooking” (1993) were an encouragement to even the most nervous cook.
