For a quick and delicious lunch, I often choose one of my favorite gluten free grains, quinoa. This time I served it with sautéed crimini mushrooms and goat cheese, resulting in an overall great flavor. I adapted the recipe from Heidi Swanson’s wonderful book Super Natural Cooking.
This dessert is a classic. Deliciousness is guaranteed. The recipe is from Frame-by-Frame Baking, a visual step-by-step cookbook from the British series Love Food. But even without these kinds of illustrative photos, the making of these brownies is incredibly easy.
For me, reading is an essential and beloved activity. It has always been and it always will be. I used to read a lot as a kid, as a teenager often late into the night, as a college student on crowded streetcars and buses, juggling the book in one hand and holding on to the rail with the other. I still do – all of the above. My days don’t feel complete unless they are finished with reading.
Kohlrabi is one of my favorite vegetables. Paired with apples, a quick slaw – full of vitamins – can be created from it. It’s refreshing and crunchy, simple and very delicious on its own, or as a side dish.
It’s probably safe to say that for many people – especially in America – pancakes belong to the category of favorite breakfast foods. In any season.
I still use store bought puff pastry – and not homemade – when the recipe calls for it. It’s very convenient and time saving. This is a big enough reason for me not to embark on making it from scratch – not yet.
What do you do if you suddenly crave something sweet? Try to find something sweet in your pantry? Run to a store to buy something? Start baking? Maybe cookies or even a cake? Yes, a cake! The type that doesn’t require any filling. Then you can justify your baking as preparing snacks or the next day’s breakfast. Yes, seriously. We don’t even need a special occasion to bake a cake. If the ingredients are available, we are ready to start.
No, this is not my grandmother’s apple cake. I’ve been baking it from the Hungarian cookbook Gyümölcsös édesség by Mari Lajos for decades.
In one of our raised beds the arugula looked really wonderful the other day, ready to be used. I harvested it all – some for a tasty salad, some for some sandwiches.
On some of the islands of Puget Sound around Seattle, WA, there are many lavender farms and annual lavender festivals – a favorite destination for many in the summer. It was already a few years ago during one of these festivals where I tasted my first lavender scone and bought my first little bag of dried culinary lavender.
This is a very satisfying, healthy, baked breakfast dish. Although not the quickest, but definitely one of the easiest ways of preparing oats – in our household suitable as a weekend project.
From the many ways of preparing potatoes, I love the simplicity of these roasted ones with caraway seeds and flaky sea salt. Perfect and very delicious as a side to any roast meat or just by itself.