*Pictures Updated on 8/15/13 with Easy Whole Wheat Bread* White chicken chili has always looked like something I’d want to eat– if only it didn’t have chicken. It’s creamy, smells a little spicy, and looks so comforting! Not knowing what it actually tastes like, I had to start with recipes I found online and tweak […]
Read moreFor some reason, Valentine’s day always means cherry flavored everything. I’m a big fan of the fake-tasting cherry chip boxed cake mix, though I don’t really like to admit it. I took the idea of a cherry cupcake and ran with it, all the way to a real-cherry-tasting muffin. This recipe uses flax in place […]
Read moreThere are lots of foods I’m more than a little obsessed with. Anything with a container you can eat (think tacos and bread bowls), pancakes, soups, and cheese. That puts broccoli cheese soup in a bread bowl in the danger zone of deliciousness. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if considering my waistline) broccoli cheese soups are very […]
Read moreMy sister and a few friends avoid gluten for various reasons and I strive to make most baked goods vegan. The result is a lot of overly complicated recipes that never seem to have the right texture. Using vinegar seems a little scary– strong smell, strong flavor– but neither carry through to the final product […]
Read moreI canned pasta sauce for the first time this last summer using tomatoes from my garden. My yard only gets about 2 square feet of sunlight, so I really didn’t grow very many! Now that the sauce is gone, I find myself craving the flavors of a richly developed sauce without buying a pile of […]
Read moreThis recipe is where I first learned to love lentils. To be fair to the legume, I think previously I had only eaten them in canned soups and weird lentil loafs. The sweetness from the molasses and tang from mustard really pull the sauce together in a I-wanna-lick-it-off-my-fingers kind of way. I like to load […]
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