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Slow Cooker Rolls for Summer

Edited from a 2014 post and still relevant! Slow cooker rolls are just what you need for summer.

My idea of a perfect summer meal is a great salad and home-baked bread. But who wants to turn on the oven on the hottest days of the year?

Food, Pantry Cooking

English Muffins

Why did “pantry cooking” ever become associated with deprivation? There are lots of wonderful foods you can make from simple pantry ingredients: these English muffins are a fine example.

If you have flour, yeast, salt, and water –

Food, Pantry Cooking

Hash is an old-fashioned dish. You can make hash from leftover roast of any kind, and cooks like my grandmother never needed a recipe: just cook onions, potatoes, leftover meat in a pan, moisten with gravy, milk, or cream, season,

Food

Pickle Soup – a winner!

While it hasn’t been an especially cold winter, so far, it’s often been dank and grey. In my kitchen, the best remedy for the winter blahs is a pot of soup. Recently I experimented with a Polish dill pickle soup –

Food, Local Harvest

Peach Upside-Down Cake

This blog focuses on what’s local and in season. I do make some exceptions, though: my wheat and flour do not come from local growers. I like bananas, avocados, and ginger, none of which grow anywhere nearby. And I love peaches from the Peach Truck –

Food, Pantry Cooking

Oat and Wheat Bread

It’s been cold, cold, COLD! During the frigid polar vortex days I wanted to bake all the things, all day long, so I could hang out in a warm kitchen. I made soup; I made stew; I made oat and wheat bread.

Food, Pantry Cooking

Escarole Soup with Beans & Sausage

So far this month, we’ve had cold & grey weather – gloomy, but no rain or snow. According to the weather forecasters, that’s about to change. We’ll have a chance to put on our snow boots, test out the new electric snow thrower,

Food, Tools & Equipment

Sous Vide Cooking in My Kitchen

January is a time when I return to the simple in my kitchen. After 6 weeks of feasts, cookies, pies, more feasts, and all the glitter of the holidays, it’s time to simplify. This month I want to eat down the freezer,

Food, Local Harvest

Quick Maple Tarts

Cold weather and the holiday season mean that my oven’s often in use, baking all kinds of treats. Fancy cookies are all very well, and fun to give as gifts, but sometimes I just want something quick and easy, but still utterly delicious.

Food, Pantry Cooking

Chasseur Sauce for Leftovers

Lots of people end up with refrigerators chock full but still can’t seem to pull a dinner out of it. Let’s say you’ve got 2 chicken breasts leftover from yesterday, or maybe a bit of cold beefsteak (but not enough for the whole family),

Food

Stuffed (unstuffed?) Pepper Soup

November, here in SE Michigan, brings cold blustery weather, and adds unpredictability. We might have sunshine, sleet, snow, or all of the above in one day. I call it soup weather: this is the time of year when I have great appreciation for a good bowl of soup.

Food, Pantry Cooking

Flourless Chocolate Cake for 2 #choctoberfest

Let’s say you love chocolate (I do!) but you have no self-control. Or you have a small family (I do!) and don’t like eating the same dessert three nights in a row. Or you’re looking for a gluten-free treat to share with one lucky friend. (Jason,

Food

Slow Cooker Rolls for Summer

English Muffins

Sausage Hash

Pickle Soup – a winner!

Peach Upside-Down Cake

Oat and Wheat Bread

Escarole Soup with Beans & Sausage

Sous Vide Cooking in My Kitchen

Quick Maple Tarts

Chasseur Sauce for Leftovers

Stuffed (unstuffed?) Pepper Soup

Flourless Chocolate Cake for 2 #choctoberfest

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