Some time around early June my garlic sent up these tall curly cues. Honestly, I didn’t know what to do with them and thought that maybe the would flower or something. A friend of mine told me that the garlic would do this but for some reason I was completely unprepared. He also said that [...]
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Back in the summer I took a giant leap of faith and purchased a bread machine. I probably wouldn’t have even considered the purchase, except I had a bunch of reward points from a credit card and I promised myself to only use rewards points for entirely frivolous buys. This was honestly one of the best appliance [...]
View Article bread, bread machine, DIY, Great River Organic Milling flour, pretzels, recipes, snack food
Breakfast is absolutely the hardest meal of the day for me. I’m not a huge breakfast eater to begin with. This is no fault of my mother’s. When I was a child, she made sure that I had a healthy plate of pancakes every morning for breakfast. Pancakes were pretty much all I would eat [...]
View Article granola, home cooking, home-made, MyNeChimKi's Granola, Orangette, organic, recipes
It’s not all bad being snowed in. There are, after all, always waffles. After DH and I awoke and realized that through the night the town had not bothered to plow our street we settled in to be stranded until his father was finished with the heavy equipment. DH suggested that we make the best [...]
View Article breakfast, Bride & Groom First and Forever Cookbook, home cooking, recipes, snow, snowmageddon, waffles, winter
I spent my formative years living outside of St. Louis, Missouri. My father says that this has ruined me; he refers to my “Show Me” attitude. I do certainly like to see things before I actually believe them. However, my “Show Me” attitude isn’t the only thing that I grew up learning from St. Louis. [...]
View Article America's Test Kitchen, food, pizza, Provel cheese, recipes, St. Louis-style pizza
I’m going to level with you. I love to eat… good food. But I’ve really developed this sort of loathing for cooking that I can’t describe. It’s mostly tied to the kitchen in the house that I live in right now. I used to really enjoy cooking when I was in college and I had [...]
View Article cheese crackers, cheese straws, DIY, goldfish crackers, Hammer Song Cookie Cutters, home-made crackers, recipes