It’s Sunday, so that means we’re getting ready for another long week by cooking up a storm.
First up, I made two loaves of banana bread. My current favorite recipe is this one from smitten kitchen. I make three changes: 1) I replace the egg with 1Tbsp ground flax seed mixed with 3 Tbsp warm water; 2) I use coconut oil instead of butter; and 3) I add about 1/2t salt to make up for the lack of salted butter.
Why hello there. It’s been a long time, huh? Since I last posted about being pregnant with twins (I think I was still in shock about the surprise of twins when I wrote that post!), things have been awfully silent around here. And that, unfortunately, is because I was barely able to cook while pregnant. Read the rest of this entry »
it’s definitely spring in seattle, full of flowers (yay), memos (yuck!), studying for midterms (double yuck!), and spending time with friends in town from california (super yay!).
in lieu of posting a recipe this week, i’m passing along this link to mark bittman’s article about customizable soups. my dad emailed me this recipe awhile ago, and mike and i have been enjoying trying all kinds of different riffs on the recipes. we’ve even been trying to follow bittman’s suggestion that you really don’t need a recipe for soup (i know this idea isn’t revolutionary, but i rarely cook without one…).
i’ll be back with some recipes soon, but until then, try out the recipes from one and two years ago!
hi friends! we’re back from our east coast / midwest vacation, and i’m still working on getting back in the swing of things. so instead of a real post with a recipe, will you take a link to a ton of pictures from the vacation? and pictures of some of the fabulous food we ate below? pretty please? thanks – i owe you one, and i’ll be back next week with new recipes for y’all!
it’s the very end of august, and we’ve reached the time of year when everyone’s going back to school, and tomatoes, corn, zucchini, etc, etc, are all coming out of the garden like crazy. but it’s not just the garden that’s going crazy – our lives have also been a tad nuts over the past few weeks as we squeezed in as much time as possible with my sister (who just left for grad school waaaay across the country), and juggled parties and work events.
no matter how busy we are, every time we walk into the house we’re greeted by beautiful, overflowing bags of produce that our lovely friends and family keep gifting us, and are filling our moments of spare time trying to use all of this produce. so what did we come up with?
well, we’ve made at least four winning recipes – the first of which is pie. yes, pie. have you made one lately? this week, we made two – a gorgeous blackberry pie with smitten kitchen’s amazing crust, and a tomato pie. i know that the latter one sounds weird, but it’s really amazing. since i didn’t edit smitten kitchen’s recipe at all, i’m just going to link to it here, strongly suggest you go there to try it out, and i’ll get to work writing the next installments.
