Crunchy Chicken Marbella
Do you still have loads of dried plums left over from your (or a neighbor's) tree from last summer? Do you have any leftover bay leaves you dried last winter?Here is one good way of using up those...
View ArticleLavender Chocolate Mousse Pie
Last month's lavender flowering resulted in some lovely dried culinary lavender. What better way to enjoy it than to couple it with chocolate?My husband makes this wonderful chocolate mousse pie, so we...
View ArticleKick-ass hummus
I love me some hummus! Especially when you make it yourself and when you use dried chickpeas. You can substitute 2 cups of canned chickpeas in this recipe if you don't have dried ones.1 cup dried...
View ArticleHandmade butter
Thought you couldn't make butter by hand without a churn or some sort of fancy equipment? Well, I'm here to tell ya that all you need is a little cream (heavy whipping cream), a Mason jar and lid and...
View ArticleCandied orange peel
Over on Crunchy Chicken I'm describing how I'm turning some of my food scraps into delectable foods. Candied orange peels are no different. You can modify this recipe to make more or...
View ArticleTriple Orgasm Strawberry Jam
Yes, this is a very salacious sounding title for a series of three takes on strawberry jam, but they are so amazing, the name is fitting.Like the recipes for the Triumvirate of Peach Preserves, start...
View ArticleDrying Herbs for Idiots
My herb plants are getting totally overgrown and are encroaching on my other plants. So, I took matters into my own hands and bushwacked them back.I didn't want to just huck the clippings onto the...
View ArticleGrilled Pumpkin with Rosemary and Sea Salt
My backyard grown sugar pie pumpkins are finally ripening up in spite of the steady rains we've been experiencing here in the Pacific Northwest. A few of the pumpkins ended up being somewhat small and...
View ArticleCrunchy's Favorite Whole Wheat Bread
This recipe is based on one I found in Baking Illustrated, published by the editors of Cook's Illustrated, one of my favorite food magazines. This bread also freezes fantastically and, after thawing,...
View ArticleWhite Chocolate Raspberry Jam
Even though it's October, I'm canning away the last of the summer berries. We've still got raspberries coming in from a local farm and I wanted to do something a little different than the standard...
View ArticleHomemade Ricotta
Making your own cheese seems so horribly insurmountable that most people don't even think to try doing it themselves. It always seems like you need a ton of equipment, weird ingredients or a lot of...
View ArticleRoasted Cranberry Sauce
I always enjoy making my own cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, so when I saw this recipe for roasting the cranberries first, I was more than excited to give a try. Here's my doctored version of the...
View ArticleChocolate Peppermint Bark
I suspect I'm not the only one being bombarded by Williams Sonoma and Crate and Barrel catalogs all sporting delicious tins of chocolate peppermint bark. I've had the stuff from Williams Sonoma and...
View ArticleCaramel Covered Homemade Marshmallows
Following the theme of recreating Williams Sonoma food gift ideas, I wanted to share with you our latest knock-off. It's the caramel covered marshmallow treat. Also called Modjeskas, these candies were...
View ArticleSnappy Salted Potatoes
My brother came over on Sunday for dinner and whipped up a batch of fingerling potatoes. Okay, "whipped up" is definitely not the correct description to use because he used a technique his friend...
View ArticleLavender Honey Lemonade
During one of the stops on our trip to the Kitsap Peninsula last weekend, at the Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse, I had this great Lavender Honey Lemonade. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I found a recipe...
View ArticleAsparagus with Fried Eggs
I've been busy reading this great book, In Late Winter We Ate Pears: A Year of Hunger and Love - Seasonal Recipes and Stories From an Italian Kitchen, and have already run across a couple of fantastic...
View ArticleHomemade rosolio
I'm reading another book by the same author from whom I got the Asparagi alla Milanese recipe. This one is called, Libation: A Bitter Alchemy and, no surprises here, it's about the origins of different...
View ArticleHomemade mascarpone
I don't know about you, but I love foods made with mascarpone, even though I inevitably always mispronounce it. It's that triple-cream cheese that's used in making tiramisu and a whole host of very...
View ArticleIndian Masala Strawberry Jam
I love Indian Masala Chai tea and I've yammered on about making it before. So, what better way to savor the flavors of Masala but in a strawberry jam? Now, this may sound like a very unorthodox...
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