As I mentioned yesterday, I did not get skins off of the tomatoes before I cooked them. However, once I took them out of the crock pot, I realized that it would be better if I did, so then I had to pick out the skins from the sauce. Cartoonist suggested that we puree the […]
Making a pizza from scratch Part I
So, cartoonist mentioned that if she was going to invite her friends over, we should have pizza. I paused on that thought, and she had the same thought at the same time. “We need to make that from scratch too.” she said. So, where to start. I found a good gluten-free recipe for the crust, […]
Making Energy Bars Part III
I had never used a dehydrator before, so had no idea what to expect. I took it out of the box, and looked at all the parts, and marveled at it. Now, we could do real bars, bars that we wouldn’t have to freeze, bars that we could grab and go, just as we always […]
Making Energy Bars Part II
My mom doesn’t even know what i had to go through to get my energy bar fix. And the bars i made? brrr-ick not good. but I had been craving one of those tasty chewy bars for well over a month but so far no luck in finding a recipe. In the early evening after […]
Making Engery Bars, Part I
One of my weaknesses, when I went off gluten, was energy bars, because most were made gluten free, and I thought were fairly harmless, especially Nugo bars. I went through those, sometimes two as a meal. I loved how handy they were, and never stopped to look at all the ingredients. But then, I read, […]
What the frick? (glazed lemon muffins)
I mean really what the Frick!!? We were actually going to try to make a recipe without changing anything!! you heard me!! NOTHING!! zero, zip, nada, nothing! No ingredient was changed!!…well maybe there was a little swichero on the flour but that doesn’t count OK! Anyway my mom and i both thought that it would […]
Making the Macaroons from hell
I was bitching the other day about the macaroon recipe in Baby Cakes. I decided to see just how long it would take, and just how many recipes it would take to make one batch of macaroons. As I mentioned yesterday, each recipe pointed to a different one, and I thought I had caught all […]
Recipies that drive me crazy
What I really hate are recipes that give an ingredient that you don’t make, such as a can of something, or package of something, to throw into the mix you are working. The worst offender is a book I bought, I believe, at Costco, where I love looking at the cook book section. It is […]
How beautiful it is to have it clean
I don’t want you to think that we never cleaned up. Here are pictures of what happened when cartoonist came back home. She was very diligent, and got it all clean. And here are the pictures to prove it. She said, when done, you don’t have to take pictures, but she didn’t know I had […]
The non-joy of cleaning up
Ah, the part I hate the most of cooking, is cleaning up. I try to clean as I go, and put things in the dish washer, but it was one of those weeks were we were cooking every day. (I usually cook big things about once a week, but my daughter didn’t have anything else […]
