Category: Recipes
Black Beans with Garlic and Chipotle on a TLC Book Tour for Resurrecting Rain
Resurrecting Rain by Patricia Averbach is partially set in Santa Fe. This novel gave me a great excuse to pull out my Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook and find an authentic recipe that could have been served up in the novel.
Maple-Banana Muffins and The Ingredients of You and Me for TLC
Nina Bocci’s latest novel includes some heirloom recipes for Cucidati (Italian Fig Cookies), Apfelkuchen (German Apple Cake), Hummingbird Cake, Italian Wedding Cookies (anise cookies), and Ciambelone (Italian tea cakes). Please join me for my TLC review.
Live-Longer Granola
I recently reviewed The Blue Zones Kitchen and have really been using this cookbook since. It’s been hard lately cooking from a cookbook because I am not running to the store for needed ingredients. If we don’t have it, we make something else (or totally revamp the original recipe). Having recently eaten the last of the granola…
French Bread (and an essential outing)
After a successful hunt for bread flour, I found this recipe in an old cookbook passed on to me by my grandmother. Here’s a comforting (and easy) recipe (and another Cookbook of the Week post).
Food ‘n Flix, The Biggest Little Farm, and a Chickpea Salad
The Biggest Little Farm features a 200 acre money pit that Molly and John turn into a flourishing, biodynamic Eden. Join me for a review of this 2018 documentary as well as one of Molly’s recipes.
Blackberry Cobbler in a Skillet
Here’s a very versatile and easy cobbler recipe that works with most any fruit. It’s my latest Cookbook of the Week installment.
Grapefruit Breakfast Cake (and more)
While we clean out the freezer and pantry during our “safer at home” existence, I am coming up with some new recipes.
Flatbread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Peanuts
Here’s a recipe I made in early March and another Cookbook of the Week feature. Hope you enjoy!
Pumpkin-Apple Donuts and Sleepy Hollow
After a one month hiatus from Food ‘n Flix, I’m back for the Tim Burton extravaganza! Here’s some donuts, perfect for noshing on while you watch Burton’s quirky tales.
Carrot Salad with Olives
One more Cookbook of the Week post. I seem to be on a roll! This is a keeper of a salad.