There’s nothing like veggies FRESH from the garden. Whether they be carrots covered in dirt (oh, thank you, Bonnie) tasting candy-sweet, flavor-bomb cherry tomatoes, super spicy radishes, crisp mesclun lettuce, OR fragrant and fabulous baby shallots, I’ll take it all. FRESH from the ground is superb – amazing – astounding. I recently harvested some “baby”…
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It’s butta’ baby.Flavor-infused butter was once a “thing.” At point point, I toyed with the idea of opening a grass-fed butter shop, carrying exclusively butters mished and mashed with exotic (or not so-) items: think bacon butter, lavender butter, date butter, roasted red pepper butter…It still seems like a great idea to me, but I…
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After relishing in the sweet, refreshing delight of a Mint Mojito on my back porch at the end of this summer, I decided to delve into the deliciousness of a mint mojito crusty bread. Mint Mojito Artisanal Bread 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour 1/3 cup fresh mint, coarsely chopped 1 1/2 cups warm water…
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So, I consistently have this problem of overfilling my quick bread pans just before baking, resulting in an ooey gooey stick mess, often with a whole lot of smoke, wafting from the oven. This is unfortunate for a variety of reasons: I detest messes – I like everything to be supremely clean, including my oven…
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I originally baked this bread on a whim for my hubby on one tired afternoon – as a special treat for him. By the time he arrived home from work, the lights were dimmed, the darkness had taken over for dusk, and he was ready to be “done” for the day. However, he simply couldn’t…
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