The July 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Margie of More Please and Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make their own nut butter from scratch, and use the nut butter in a recipe. Their sources include Better with Nut Butter by Cooking Light Magazine, [...]
Feb 282010
Every once in a while I start feeling extra crafty when it comes to cooking. I get these impulses to make really basic things that are readily available in the supermarket. Once it was jam, another time it was bread – and there have likely been many other things over the years. A few years [...]
(Photo via Cheat Yourself to Good Health) I’m one of those people that packs their lunch about 90% of the time. I’m just thrifty like that. It’s so easy to spend $10 a day on lunch which can add up to around $2500 a year! I want a Chanel bag and those lunch savings would [...]
Happy New Year! Around this time of year people set all sorts of goals and resolutions. Even I did it! One thing that I hear over and over again is that people aim to cook more often instead of just grabbing take out or eating a frozen meal. As someone that cooks practically every night [...]
So I had a special request to do a post about kitchen essentials. I interpreted this as being about tools that I absolutely need (or totally enjoy having) in my kitchen. They range from things that you can use everyday to things you may use once every year. Mark Bittman wrote a great article for [...]
