Yesterday was a cheat day. No holds barred, eat all kinds of “bad for me” foods! I met a few previous co-worker friends and we had such a great time, reminiscing, gossiping and eating fattening foods! I haven’t laughed that hard in such a long time! Don’t giggles and laughs burn off calories? haha. I [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Ancient Harvest Quinoa Pasta – Review
I love pasta, but it’s tough to find a really tasty whole grain pasta. I love brown rice pasta, but I also like trying something new. So, I purchased a box of the Ancient Harvest brand of quinoa pasta. It’s a blend of organic (non-GMO) corn and quinoa flours. It’s totally gluten free, and looks [...]
Quinoa Salad with Tomatoes, Feta, Apples & Almonds
UPDATED 2011-06-22: I just made this quinoa salad for a reunion dinner tonight. Quinoa is a very small grain, actually it’s technically not even a grain, it’s a seed, but it’s always lumped into the hearty whole grain category. It’s gluten free and fairly quick to make. It smells earthy when cooking. I found excellent [...]
First Bread Dough Kneaded By Hand
INSPIRATION from the Kitchen Bootcamp – this month’s challenge is yeast breads. I tried to think outside the box and try something new…very timely since I think my wonderful (and old) bread machine died this morning. I don’t know if it’s recoverable, we’ll see if DH can fix it. The ingredients were in the machine [...]
Campo de Montalban Cheese – Review
Yesterday, I made a sandwich for lunch with some Campo de Montalban cheese inside one of my strangely unique wheat rye sunflower caraway rolls. I love cheese but let me tell you, this particular cheese really rocks! The flavor melded so well with the flavors of rustic wheat and caraway seeds in my bread. I [...]
Zucchini Onion Pancakes Recipe
For the Summer Lovin week over at I Heart Cooking Clubs – Cooking through Mark Bittman recipes! The cookbook “How to Cook Everything” authored by Mark Bittman is available in a handy, easy to use, full featured iPhone app. I have been browsing the recipes, getting to know the app and I am totally thrilled [...]
Whole Wheat Rye Sunflower Caraway Bread
I found a great “cooking challenge group” called Kitchen Bootcamp. The challenge this month is yeast bread, so I’m trying to bake out of my comfort zone. It’s tough because when I bake bread (twice a week), I just don’t have the time to experiment with new techniques, but when I realized my loaf pan [...]
Keeping Produce Fresh with Ethylene Gas Removers
Ethylene gas (H2C=CH2) is a harmless odorless, colorless, gas that is produced from both natural and man-made sources. Vegetables and fruit release the gas as they are ripening, but at the same time, the build up of the gas can hasten the ripening of produce. Some produce produce large quantities of the Ethylene gas, some [...]
Meatless Monday – Quinoa Pasta with Tomato Puttanesca Sauce
We went meatless tonight (with a little bit of dairy) by eating a satisfying plate of quinoa pasta topped with tomato puttanesca sauce. I included some lovely kousa squash in the sauce, which was part of our CSA vegetable share this week. It’s a summer squash similar to zucchini.
Pomegranate Season
Since I slowly started to eat clean only last July, I’m still getting to know certain foods and when they are available in stores. The pomegranate is one fruit I am dying to try for real! I ate the seeds in the Chobani yogurt pomegranate flavor, but I want the real thing! So it looks [...]
