Adventure stories from around the world, the kitchen, and the written word.
A couple of years ago I found a fresh herb cookbook. One of the recipes were these beautiful Chamomile Cakes. A few months ago I started growing chamomile in my herb garden and recently managed to dry enough to make these adorable cakes! Not only do these have crushed chamomile flowers in the batter, once
Nothing taste better than food around a campfire and I don’t to cook around one very often so I had a good time trying out my skills on this last camping trip. I decided to cook in my dutch oven over hot coals – Cornish game hens and wild rice. A simple and tasty meal
Christmas before last Keltin gifted me a pink Himalayan salt block and I have served on it a number of times. However, we decided that we were not getting full use out of the block and decided to cook on it. Now once you cook on a salt block you don’t really serve on it
I haven’t posted about Italy in a long while but I have been craving some risotto lately and decide to make some this weekend along with some herbed focaccia bread. I bought so many fresh herbs and I love it when my house smells like warm bread! What recipes help you remember wonderful adventures? Happy
For Christmas I received some new cookbooks and I tried a new recipe that turned out too pretty not to share. From Eat Delicious I attempted the Pulled Pork Ramen. It turned out pretty well for my first attempt at mostly homemade ramen. Overall a flavorful recipe but I will change a couple of things
I love cooking in general and baking but cooking is an art where baking is a science. And part of that science is having the right type of flour. Now, I won’t pretend to know how the different types of flour affect a recipe but what I can tell you if how to make different
At one point in time – the Christmas before college – I was not happy to get cookbooks as gifts. Now I add them to the list myself. This year I received two new ones: Pasta Grannies and Eat Delicious. And I cannot wait to start trying out the recipes. I found out about Pasta
Colorado has a plethora of breweries and we actually visited two in Ouray. The first was for lunch, the second because of the name but more about that one later. We enjoyed lunch on the dog friendly patio of Red Mountain Brewing right on the main street. They don’t have a large beer list and
After our balloon flight and a jaunt up to Wolf Creek Pass we were all in the mood for something cold. Originally we were going to get ice cream until we came across P.S. Chocolates in a little strip mall on the way back into Pagosa Springs. I did get something cool to drink but
Last weekend I visited Canyon, TX with my friends for WT’s homecoming in the new stadium. But there are a number of wonderful things in Canyon besides WTAMU. One of those is Creek House Honey Farm. A little shop and winery where you can sample and buy local honey and other products made with honey
