While reading my copy of The 50 Best Cooking For Two Recipes: Tasty, fresh, and easy to make!, I noticed the recipe for Arugula Cavatelli on page 31 and realized I had never cooked with Arugula before. The only changes I made was using a different pasta shape - finding cavatelli locally would have been… Continue reading Arugula Pasta from 50 Best Cooking for Two Recipes
Category: Cookbooks
A Birthday Day
Yesterday was Walker's second birthday, I decided to try a cupcake and a frosting recipe from Cake Boy, which came out in October of 2011. The frosting is fantastic, easily piped, swirled and spiked onto cakes. Walker had a lot of fun sitting on the floor with a spoon and the mixing bowl scraping it… Continue reading A Birthday Day
From My Mother’s Kitchen: Oatmeal Crispies
Another recipe from the "Red Plaid Cookbook" but this time it is from the older version, Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book (1953 Edition). My Mom had both the 1953 and the 1968 versions in her kitchen when I was growing up. Her 1953 was falling apart, pages missing. We didn't use it as… Continue reading From My Mother’s Kitchen: Oatmeal Crispies
350 Best Vegan Recipes – Savory Onion Biscuits
Recently released 350 Best Vegan Recipes, is a new cookbook full of ideas by Deb Roussou (who I hadn't realized was also behind the Breakthrough Blending Creative & Delicious Recipes for Your Ninja Blender (Rule The Kitchen Ninja) book as well - which came with my Ninja Blender) - many I had not come across… Continue reading 350 Best Vegan Recipes – Savory Onion Biscuits