First Nectarine
For at least six years I’ve had a dwarf nectarine in the front garden. Every year it is covered in flowers that the bees love, like this. And every year when the little green...
Category: food
Strawberry (rhubarb) Shortcake Day
Mike discovered that today is National Strawberry Shortcake Day, so obviously I had to make strawberry shortcakes today. We also had some rhubarb sauce I’d made earlier in the week with rhubarb from Wilson’s....
Molasses Ginger Cookies
Last weekend we had the annual neighborhood holiday cookie swap. As usual I was trying to decide what kind of cookies to make, and for so reason molasses cookies really appealed to me. This...
Hackathon/Bogrács Gulyás
At work this weekend, we had a hackathon. Everyone was making cool stuff and trying out crazy ideas. Of course, even when you’re hacking, you need to do things right. And that includes safety...
Pastry (and Blueberry Peach Pie)
Tom has been saying for a while that he wanted a reminder of how to make pastry for pies. Summer is not the best time to make pastry, especially when it’s hot and muggy....
Chorizo, Egg, and Onion Sandwiches
A few weeks ago I had to make dinner for myself and Peter, and wanted to do sausages, but the store didn’t have any sausage rolls, so I decided to make more of a...
Pot Roast Goulash
This is inspired by the Goulash recipe from the Loaf & Ladle Cookbook. It has been my goto goulash recipe for many, many years. Today I wanted something that would work in the slow-cooker,...
Sourdough Crumpets
I keep looking for different ways to use my sourdough starter. Particularly the “unfed” starter that is discarded when you feed the sourdough after it’s been in the fridge. Today I tried the Sourdough...
