The need for no-knead bread

If you’ve always wanted to try making your own bread, but worry it will come out like a brick or a hockey puck—this is your bread. If you don’t have the time and/or energy it takes to make beautiful artisan loaves like you can buy at the local bakery (some of those recipes take 3-4 [...]

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes and Happiness

Yesterday was all about the sweetness. I spent the day in the kitchen while Chris worked on boxes of stuff in the basement, sorting and filing and throwing away. Lila floated between the two of us, helping me mix cupcakes, then running upstairs with photos and other finds to share. “Freemember this? When I was [...]

One hundred year-old cookbook tells all

I’m flipping gently through the pages of Tried and True Cook Book No. 2, published in 1907 by the Eisele Printing Co. in Cleveland, written by The Ladies of The Miles Avenue Christian Church and Their Friends. The recipes are all written in paragraph format, no ingredients list, most only a few sentences. The pages [...]

Chocolate orange cupcakes with ganache and buttercream and a side of reupholstered dining room chairs

Busyness all weekend (nothing seed or garden related, but I’m out of the self-flagellation business, so we’ll just vett that to next weekend’s to-do list). Chris surprised me Saturday afternoon by coming home with four new seats for the dining room chairs cut out of 3/8″ plywood. We all got busy taking the nasty covers [...]

Pickled turnips; digestive aid and tasty treat

Have you ever tasted pickled turnips and felt the sweet explosion of turnipy goodness waking your taste buds up from a deep slumber? The first time I had them was last year at a local Middle Eastern restaurant. An insert stuck into the menu notified customers that the wrap style sandwiches now also contained pickles [...]

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