Quick and Easy Wheat-Free and Sugar-Free Breakfast Oat Cakes
Lots of us are trying to moderate our carbohydrate intake, particularly flour and sugar. Oatmeal/porridge is highly recommended for breakfast, but my problem is eating it without adding loads of sweetener, usually brown sugar. I’ve seen baked oatmeal recipes which looked intriguing, but those, too usually have sugar as well as flour and fat. Here’s [...]
Flaming Christmas Plum Pudding!
My husband Steve is an Englishman, and at Christmastime I like to treat him to some of his favorites like Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Stilton cheese with a nice port, etc. Yorkshire Pudding is very much like a savory turnover, the batter is poured into the sizzling hot beef drippings and then it puffs [...]
Easy Pecan Toffee Bars
Pecan Toffee Bars are one of the easiest and tastiest and most portable of cookie/dessert type treats. If you have a food processor, this recipe takes no time at all and you can make the crust and the filling without washing out the bowl, which saves time and mess. They are good plain, but if [...]
Hummus on the Cheap–No Tahini Needed
Hummus is one of the most marvelous things in the world and easy to make. The biggest downside is the cost or even the availability of sesame tahini. Most hummus recipes I’ve seen require quite a dollop of tahini, and a single ten-dollar jar might have two such dollops. Nice stuff, buuuuuuuut…. There are a [...]
Getting to the Bottom of Leftover Condiments
Just about every refrigerator has them: narrow-necked bottles of ketchup, mustard, mayo, etc. with too much left in them to justify throwing away, but next to impossible to shake out. I’ve tried storing them upside down so that gravity will do some of the work, but oftentimes that just leads to more messes like leaky [...]
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