All sorrows are less with bread. – Miguel de Cervantes There is something so gratifyingly innate about making bread. I love the entire process! Grinding flour, kneading the dough with my hands, the rise or two my loaves get and then the best part: the baking! My kitchen is nice and toasty…
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No Soda Today!
My friends know I’m a hater of diet soda [bad aspartame! bad aspartame!] I say, do natural (real sugar) or do nothing! Every day, I consume about 200 ounces or more of water. I have been told I was going to drown myself (hyponatremia)… but, I feel parched with less! Sometimes I’ll add wedges of…
The Bull and Lettuce
“Never mind love, have a cup of tea.” favorite British saying Ok, The Bull and Lettuce may only be what we had for dinner last night (steak salad with horseradish cream), but it would be a GREAT pub name! If the Brits can have The Butt & Oyster (what?!?), why not the Bull and Lettuce? …
Summer in a spoonful ~
Here in good old San Antonio, it is going to be a sultry 94 degrees today! (Mind you, it is 18 March; not May, June, July, August; but, March) Today definitely is NOT soup weather… so, as I drink my HOT coffee in my 83 degree house this morning, I am thinking lemons. Anything…
Colors of the Rainbow ~ and my kitchen
The “canned food” section of my kitchen! I have cans of Hatch Green Chile, Coconut Milk, Water Chestnuts and Muir Glen Fire Roasted Tomatoes in my pantry, but that is it. For most meals, our plates look like a color bomb exploded! Fresh this, fresh that ~ You can’t help feeling healthy with every bite!…
Skillet Gnocchi with Chard and White Beans
While this calls for packaged gnocchi, you can also use fresh… (see earlier post on gnocchi) If you can make mashed potatoes, you can make gnocchi! Enjoy ~ v INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1 16-ounce package shelf-stable gnocchi, (see Tip) 1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced 4 cloves garlic,…
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