Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
A dirty chai is typically a chai tea latte with a shot of espresso. I let that drink inspire this dessert. I love the King Arthur Baking Espresso Meringue recipe; I’ve made it several times and these are always delicious. I used that recipe as this base for this updated version. For Christmas I was
The local farmers market has some fantastic vendors, one of which makes pasta. They also make fantastic butternut squash ravioli. They don’t have a website but if you end up at the Denton Community Market stop in at Lucido’s Garden Pasta. I worked with them to come up with an easy (and tasty) summer recipe
Earlier this year I posted about olive oil cakes and I did make a saffron variation that was very well loved at a gender reveal party. But I wanted an easier to share version and cakes can be hard to travel with if you want them to stay pretty. This recipe is just slightly sweet
A couple of years ago I had a squash plant and was able to get a handful of squash blossoms to eat. I tried to get some blossoms from the plants I had in the garden last year but something killed my plants. This year, until my own plants starts producing I was lucky enough
I apologize, it has been a while but I’m back with an other recipe. This last weekend we picked up some beautiful rainbow carrots at the farmers market but they also had these massive greens attached. I asked the seller if she knew any recipes for carrot greens and if they are editable. She said
This is not my recipe but it is delicious and I wanted to share it. I tried making this olive oil cake from Food52. This cake is easy to make and super moist. For this version I switched out the whole milk for oat milk because it is what I had available and no one
I can’t remember which blog it was but one mentioned having made an excess of butternut squash pies that her husband devoured. I had to try one and so I modified a sweet potato pie recipe that I have been making for my grandfather. We had a Friendsgiving and this recipe was hit. Ingredients: Directions:
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got the chance to enjoy some delicious food. If you made any mistakes in the kitchen this week, don’t worry because you are not alone and we have all done it. Here is one of mine. I do want to point out that my normal pecan pie
Last year I read and reviewed Those Were the Days. It is a memoir by an Aspen, CO of her time there in the 70’s. I also got the opportunity to interview her and it was wonderful. Her book, along with being filled with wonderful stories, has recipes from the restaurants that were there at
The base recipe for this are rosemary cookies. The original recipe is in the back of The Lost Apothecary. The cookies are delicious from that recipe but I wanted to try something different and I was craving a taste of fall without going full pie and decided to play with this recipe a bit. I
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