There is too much jam in my life… I‘m making jam–because it’s jam season again. I don’t know why I make so much jam. I don’t eat a lot of jam, but it’s the first thing we all learn to preserve, so I make it year after year....
I don’t like store brand flavored coffee creamers. Store-bought coffee creamer is too sweet, and I can’t spell the chemicals. When I make things at home, I can control the amount of sugar (or leave it out entirely), and they save the environment from...
The moment my pressure cooker exploded “So when you say, blew up, do you mean it exploded or it just quit working? They are pretty sensitive on a pressure cooker site about using the words ‘blew up’.” I’m not sure who “they”...
These might very well be the best pancakes in the world. It’s my recipe, probably stolen in my twenties, but I changed it over the years to make it my own. I used to work in a diner, so I have an unnatural love for breakfast twenty-four hours a day. It’s...
Chef Michael Pollan writes about health and food. In his book “Food Rules” one of his rules is particularly dangerous. He says that we shouldn’t eat junk food unless we make it ourselves. And then we can have as much as we want. It’s most...
Meal Prep will change your world. Done right, it’s like God himself is in your kitchen. Done wrong, it’s the opposite–stressful, expensive, and will turn out to be something you resent. Meal prep properly–with joy. 5 Reasons to meal prep It...
If you’ve never eaten an entire tray of maple sugar candy in one sitting, you don’t know what you’re missing. Maple sugaring time the best farm time ever. It starts in late winter when there are a couple of warm days that switch back into...
Too many vampires sucking away your time? Make some roasted garlic. This is a great way to preserve garlic en masse, and it gives foods a garlic-snob taste that shaking out a jar of garlic powder just won’t do. When you roast garlic, you make the memory of every...
Blini (Crepes) Servings: 100 Time: 10 mins prep, 1 hour rest, 10 mins cook Difficulty: easyPrint INGREDIENTS 2 eggs 1 cup of milk 1 cup of flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil DIRECTIONS Blend all the ingredients above. You can use a blender, food...
