Lent’s over, but I stuck with my resolution and wanted to share the sweeter-side of vegetables. My March hiatus was due to my thesis, which began with the favorite foods of a locavore, a person who only eats food produced within a small radius of where they live (ie: 100, 250, or 400 miles). Those [...]
Posts Tagged ‘holidays’
Lenten Resolution: Week 4
Posted in Cooking, Just For Fun, tagged food, holidays on April 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Eggs-traordinary Easter Eggs
Posted in Weekend Projects, tagged holidays on April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had an eggs-traordinary idea to make Easter Eggs from food ingredients instead of grocery store dyes. So, here’s how to do it with wine, onion skins, spices, and more. But here’s also a step-by-step what not to do from the mistakes that I made. 1-Do not buy brown eggs. It’s so routine to pick [...]
Back Again! Lenten Resolution: Week 3
Posted in Cooking, Just For Fun, Road Trip, tagged dessert, holidays on March 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Continuing the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, food was in order. No soda bread or cabbage for me; try cupcakes. Cupcakes with green buttercream icing, that is. The cupcakes were 100% from the Betty Crocker box (with a heavy hand of vanilla extract added) but the buttercream icing was homemade. But what is this icing [...]
Lenten Resolutions: Week 2
Posted in Cooking, Just For Fun, tagged food, holidays on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my world, dessert is the most important part of any meal; and so a dessert was week two’s meal for my Lenten Resolution. Tarte de Pommes a la Normande is also known as French Apple Tart. Tarts are pies without a top crust. Tarts have been around since the Middle Ages and debuted in [...]
Lenten Resolutions
Posted in Cooking, Just For Fun, tagged food, holidays on February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My apologies for no recent updates, life took over. The Lenten Season is upon us and following my upbringing, I am changing my behavior for the next 40 days. The tradition is to forgo something, but I am choosing to take action instead: I will make at least one meal a week. (I live in [...]
