Epilogue: The Apotheosis of Pancakes
(Bisquick pancakes with maple syrup) I promise, this pancake jag will come to an end. These were just too fantastic to pass up shooting tho. I call this the Apotheosis of Pancakes because these pancakes are worthy of worship and awe. This morning my oldest daughter decided to make her own pancakes. For these she...
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My Whole Grain Manifesto – take back your inner grain!
I think you would need to be returning from a 50 year roundtrip to Mars to not know that whole grains are superior to processed grains. We all must have gotten the news by now that our bodies experience measurable benefits from eating whole grains and NOT eating processed, depleted...
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Crafting Beautiful Feasts: Williams-Sonoma Holiday Entertaining
This book of 288 pages filled with inviting photography and information-rich chapters is an excellent source of inspiration for all of us, not just the "House Beautiful" types. You can pick and choose the details that you feel comfortable with, its really all in the little touches, the details that tell your family and guests that you have been...
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“Olive Oil Baking” by Lisa Sheldon: Pumpkin Streusel Bread
[This post first aired on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] [I have included a small glossary of terms at the bottom of this post for some of the words that we may have heard a 100 times but never really took the time to look up.] I recently had...
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Spooky-easy Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake
We are just at peak fall color here, mother nature has decided to cool off, the kids are wearing their Halloween costumes all day long, and it feels like fall to me, finally. We were expecting lows of 29 F last night so I had to put row covers over the spinach, bell peppers, beets,...
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Caramel Chicken heaven: 2500 recipes you have to try
If you have come here by way of Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Birthday Giveaway, you will find details on my prize at this post – “ProBlogger Birthday Bash event: Nikas Peppermint Marshmallow Puff Pastries“. (Stir-fried Caramel Chicken, carrots, and sweet onions) I know I have been reviewing up a storm lately. I do not get anything...
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A Surfeit of Indian Food – spice it up baby
(Dosa stuffed with two onion potatoes. I know its too much but I love that stuffing!) Roll the drums, what you see above is my first ever masala dosa. Sure, its not the size of a small ox but its mine, all mine! I feel so empowered now. I can make my OWN dosa and...
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Modern Indian Cooking by Hari Nayak and Vikas Khanna
(Spicy eggplant, micro purple dragon carrots, young yellow beets, microgreens, served over basmati rice.) (Naan and pappadum lay in the background) (Copyright 2007 Nika Boyce Studios) If you read here often you will remember my recent post “Cant stop raving about Tiger Tiger Indian Sauces” where I gushed on about Tiger Tiger‘s delightful sauces that...
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Cant stop raving about Tiger Tiger Indian Sauces
I would like to introduce you to a product made by the Tiger Tiger company that I found at my big box grocery store here in Massachusetts (USA) that has wowed me to such a degree that I am actually writing about it here. If you are a regular reader, you would know that I...
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Posted on May 20
Agave cubed: Partida Agave Nectar used three ways
(This post will appear on The Spirit World blog, a member of the Well Fed Network) I received a sample of the 100% Organic Partida Agave Nectar some time ago and it has been quite a journey as I developed recipes for this interesting product. The Partida Tequila company makes their tequila, as you might...
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