I have been working with our new dehydrator to create several types of crackers and fruit leathers. The goal is to understand what the drying process does to various foods and to test some of the recipes one finds on the web. Everything I will ever make will be 100% nut free. We have a zero tolerance...

Egg, potato, Nabisco Crown Pilot cracker Yikes, I have been so blocked with both of my blogs this past week. I can not put my finger on exactly why but that is the way writing is. For me its a double block because its both writing and shooting. Part of the problem, I think, is...

To celebrate the summer solstice, I made sunny yellow cornmeal “mush” with blackstrap molasses for breakfast this morning. We are enjoying an overwhelmingly beautiful bright sunny yet not-to-hot day here in central Massachusetts. The garden is soaking up the sun and growing with leaps and bounds, our moods are sunny, and all is right with the world....

I wasn’t necessarily raised on transcendent biscuits, we had patacones and arepas instead. My mom, who is from Illinois and from a family of Illinois corn, soybean, and pig farmers who came from the hills of Kentucky ages ago (and I don’t know where before that), would talk about the delicious food her grandma...

If you are diabetic, pre-diabetic, following a low carb diet, or simply trying to eat lower processed foods, breakfast can be one of the hardest meals of the day. So much of what we eat here in the US for breakfast is high glycemic. If you want to eat on the go, it can be extremely...

(Glucose: Wikipedia source – public domain) If you choose to read The Glycemic Index site, you may briefly run across something called the Second Meal Effect (SME). As I understand it and in short, if one eats a low GI food at one meal, there is a carry over effect to the next meal in terms of...

A couple of days ago, I did the “on black” shoot where some pears saw the light. Those pears were also part of our breakfast yesterday. I found some delightful Bob’s Red Mill buttermilk pancake mix I wanted to try out and it made some amazing pancakes. I sliced one Korean pear and two of the...

[Sorry for the annoying copyright symbols on these images but there are too many people downloading and stealing these images. I am working on a downloadable for-a-fee document where you can get the whole "picture" and I do not lose all photo rights and revenue.] Arepa de huevo is a Colombian food that I remember...

[This post appeared on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] (Source: Hoffman Media, click image to go to magazine order page) I watch only a few shows on the Food Network, two of those being Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” and Paula Deen’s “Home Cooking“. I do not watch the “Paula’s Party” show...

We had these for breakfast today, warm, sauteed in nutty browned butter. They are delightful on a winter’s morning. Can you guess what they are? Are they Tibetan MoMos? Are they Chinese potstickers? Are they Japanese Gyoza? Hint: They are filled with a starch and...