What kind of menu planning do you do? Are you the super efficient type who carefully plans the week’s menu over the weekend, creating itemized shopping lists before heading to the market? Do you whip up some condiments like bread crumbs or an aioli sauce, bake some bread, or maybe chop out some of the prep on Sunday afternoon so you can have quick healthy meals during an over-scheduled week? Or are you like me? Standing in front of the refrigerator at 6:30pm, shocked to find it’s ...
Light Asparagus-Gruyere Quiche with Hash-Brown Crust | #SundaySupper
Gluten-free asparagus quiche made with leeks, Gruyere cheese, and a hash brown bottom -- lightened with egg whites and low-fat milk. As a Buddhist, Easter may not look like one of my holidays, but you would be wrong. Easter represents hope and new beginnings to me, things we all relate to, and this year, I’m more aware of this than ever. We continue to create a new life for ourselves in the Northern Sierras, and although we’ve been part-year residents for several years, this is our ...
Parmesan Piadine (Italian Flatbreads) | #BreadBakers
Classic piadine Italian flatbreads, with a dusting of Parmesan cheese. Instructions provided for making it at high altitudes and at sea level. We’re here now. Living in Tahoe full-time … one of the most beautiful places to live – and, I’ve decided, one of the most insane for weather. While you planted flowers last week, we watched two feet of fresh snow blow through, and we’re expecting more in a couple days. Cah-razy! There’s more nature than people here, with yipping coyotes out back ...
Soda Bread with Raisins and Orange Zest | #BreadBakers
On St. Patrick's Day, I figure we're all Irish. I must have some Irish in my background. Somewhere on a bright green branch of my family tree of English, Scots, and Scandinavians (the Vikings got around, you know). This month on #BreadBakers, we're celebrating this Irish holiday, and I confess a number of us chose to make a version of soda bread. I'm looking forward to seeing them all. The Irish aren't the first to use baking soda as a bread leavener, but they made it ...
Hot Cocoa with Baileys & Coconut (Dairy-Free) Whipped Cream | #ProgressiveEats
See how creamy that hot cocoa is? It's from Whipped Coconut Cream!! It's amazing how well the coconut pairs with the Baileys and chocolate. I'll take it any day over regular whipped cream. Seriously. Now that we live in the mountains, and are experiencing apocalyptic amounts of snow, hot cocoa and Baileys has been my go-to drink. Especially with whipped coconut cream. How much snow, you might ask? A resort across the Lake had to close one of its lifts because in the last storm, the snow depth ...
Easy Buttermilk Cornbread | #SundaySupper
Sometime last year, I launched a project. A personal challenge of sorts. I wanted to create the best cornbread recipe ever. I know, I know. It doesn't sound like much of a challenge to you. It's not like, say, training for a year to run a marathon. Or writing a book. Or launching a non-profit. No, I needed to keep it real. Truth: I can never resist cornbread. Never. And there must be thousands of recipes out there, all claiming to be the BEST. There are a surprising number of "Grandma's ...
Savory Finnish Baked Pancakes (Pannukakku) with Smoked Salmon | #BreadBakers
The Finnish words lettu and pannukakku both translate as *pancake*, but have different meanings. Pannukakku is the type of pancake baked in an oven, my favorite way to make pancakes. Lettu, the kind we're all more familiar with, is the stovetop kind made in a frying pan or griddle. I think of them as the high-maintenance, demanding kind. You have to be with them every step of the way to make sure you flip them at exactly the right moment. They're the kind where the second batch never ...
Butternut Squash Soup with Apple Cider & Crème Fraîche
My husband was under the weather last week, and weakly pleaded for this soup from underneath a mountain of quilts one afternoon. I nearly fainted. He wasn't begging for a burger or ice cream topped with hot fudge. He was requesting, sit down for it, a vegetable based soup. That's when I realized just how sick he was. He was hallucinating that he wanted vegetables. I didn't waste any time, and set out to make this one I posted on my blog a few years ago. I love how the apple cider brightens ...
15-Minute Chile con Queso Dip
"Anyone over 60, raise your hand!" I looked up to my husband and said, "That's you!" And then after a moment, I realized, oh wait, that's me too! Ack!! I still don’t think of myself at a 60-plusser. Our hands shot up along with almost half the group, and we were all waved over to join a stocky Hawaiian in non-descript baggy pants. His shaggy dark hair whipped around him in the wind as he belted out his questions. "Have any of you had any recent surgeries? Any bad backs? Disc issues? Knee or ...
Idaho® Potato Nacho Stacks | #SundaySupper | #GameDayIdahoPotatoes
This post is sponsored by the Idaho® Potato Commission in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own. I’m a just-in-time girl. I can plan. Really, I can. But, and this is what I blame it on, I’m an optimist. I always think I have more time available to get something done than I actually do. As a result, my husband and I live in a kind of parallel reality, since he’s exactly the opposite. It makes for some interesting ‘discussions’ as you ...
Vegan Barley Soup with Potatoes, Lime, and Mint
Years ago, I went through an intensive docent training to lead tours at a nearby Audubon ranch where egrets historically nest. If you haven't seen it for yourself, I'm here to tell you it's very moving to watch eggs suddenly appear on top of tall trees and hatch, followed by squawking open mouths, and weeks later witness awkward, tentative fledglings learn to fly with their new wispy feathers. Our training lasted for several months while we learned about snakes (which, for the record, still ...
Prawns and Cauliflower in a Tomato-Feta Sauce over Couscous
Aromatic sauce of prawns and cauliflower, with clams, chickpeas, tomatoes, and feta served over Israeli couscous. A twist on an Ottolenghi favorite. Do you buy cookbooks and cook one, maybe two, recipes from them before squeezing them onto a shelf and out of your mind? How about magazines? I'm the worst! I could be considered a hoarder. I have piles of cooking magazines, stuffed with mouth-watering recipes I've yet to try, stacked in places all over the house, and yet whenever I'm standing ...
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