Baked Stuffed French Toast Mother's Day is right around the corner! Like any self-respecting mother, I plan to lounge in bed until ten painting my toenails and catching up on celebrity gossip magazines. I'll call my BFF Keri and talk for hours. I'll stare at the ceiling. I'll think about things I haven't thought about in years. Important stuff like the color I want to paint my bedroom walls and whether or not I should buy hiking boots. My clean-faced children will bring me a plate of perfectly poached eggs and side of toast. My husband will follow with a hot cup of coffee (don't forget the cream) and the Sunday newspaper. They will promptly file Keep Reading
Easy Sympathy Meal Ideas (new mom, post-surgery, homeowner)
Karrie Truman’s Top 5 Tips for Sharing Freezer Meals! We all have occasions where we want to be helpful and share a meal. Maybe your sister has just had a baby, your best friend is moving into her dream home, or an elderly aunt or uncle is ill or just had surgery. Now, we could easily hit up a local pizza joint or throw something together out of a box but is that really the “I love you!” we want to send out to our special peeps? I don’t think so! Plus, you have to remember, you are not the only one with this brilliant idea. Lots of people will be showing up with food for new parents and those who are sick. Why not think ahead and give them a Keep Reading
No-Knead Bread: Answers to FAQ’s
Comments keep rolling in each week for our Jim Lahey's Basic No-Knead Bread post. Some of you are baking pros and others have never baked a loaf of bread in your life. Hundreds of you have tried this recipe and have come to the same conclusion: this is some seriously delicious bread. I would have to agree. I have baked dozens of these beautiful loaves since I first tried the recipe over a year ago. My Dutch ovens don't have a chance to gather dust (find affordable dutch ovens on Amazon here) and my husband is one happy camper. All signs point to success. I love reading your comments and hearing about your bread-baking success in the kitchen. Keep Reading
How to Properly Freeze Food
Freezing foods is such an amazing way to stretch your grocery budget and there are so many ways to make it work! We all know about freezing meat of course, keeping frozen veggies or fruit on hand to use in a pinch, but what about thinking outside the box a bit? Freeze dairy products like butter and shredded cheese, which means you can stock up when they're at a low price! Stock up on fresh fruit when it's in season and give them a quick "flash" freeze before filling Ziploc freezer bags. Double up on casseroles, meatloaf, soups and stews and freeze the second batch for an easy dinner on a busy weeknight. Create an assembly line and put together Keep Reading
How to Make Strawberry Shortcake from Scratch
Strawberry season is coming soon! A few years ago, I took my best friend visiting from Kansas to pick strawberries at a local field. Twenty-seven pounds later, she was still quizzing me. So... what do you do with all of these again? It never occurred to me that this was unusual behavior. Apparently in some parts of the world, it is. Thankfully, Portland is weird so I am just going to keep picking as much produce as my family will eat over the course of the year. Berry season is short and sweet. I want to stretch it out for as long as possible. Freezing berries is a great way to do that. Eating as many as you can possibly handle is good, Keep Reading
All About Hamburgers: How to grind your own meat
How to Grind Your Own Meat Despite the fact that we primarily eat a plant-based diet, if my husband and I were stranded on a desert island and had to choose just one meal to have for the rest of our days, we would pick hamburgers. But not just any old burger. It would have to be a juicy, perfectly seasoned hand-packed patty in between a soft yeast hamburger bun and piled high with fresh toppings. Oh man, that would be quite an island. For the last two years, I have been wanting to try grinding my own hamburger meat. I already owned the KitchenAid food grinder attachment (Amazon), which sadly I'd only used for fruits and vegetables. I wanted Keep Reading
Simple Kale Salad with Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette
Simple Kale Salad with Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette Back in January, I read that kale was so last year. Apparently this will be cauliflower's turn in the spotlight. Seriously, who decides this stuff? Is there some powerful vegetable lobby group in Washington? An Anna Wintour of the produce world? Some marketing experts doing vegetable focus groups? These are the questions that keep me up at night. So I set out to do some serious research Google it. It's true: cauliflower is the new kale. Just ask your friendly global culinary trendologist. I love a humble head of cauliflower as much as the next person, but I'm not ready to kick kale to the curb Keep Reading
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