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 [...]
Living With an Uncluttered Kitchen
It’s been a few months since my major kitchen uncluttering project, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on how well it’s worked out. The clean simple countertop in the photo above looked like this more often than not before the cleanout. It did not take long to learn the new habits of cleaning [...]
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 [...]
Easy Cornbread Muffins
I love cornbread with autumn food–the flavor and texture seems to complement rich flavors, especially in soups and stews. Cornbread can be made in a baking dish, or in a cast iron skillet, but it can get a bit messy when served to a lot of people at a sit-down dinner like Thanksgiving. That’s why [...]
Simple Green Bean Casserole from Scratch
The green bean casserole seems to make nearly every Thanksgiving dinner menu I’ve ever seen, except perhaps the one my mom makes. She makes her green beans in a bacon and vinegar sauce and to this day I am not certain how to make it like that. But I can do the more generally-familiar green [...]
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