Category: What we’re growing, eating, and doing.
February Secret Recipe Club: More beets
For Secret Recipe Club this month, I found another beet recipe: Roasted Beet Salad with Pear and Goat Cheese
Cherry Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Dark Sweet Cherry Cupcakes with Amaretto Buttercream
Mixed Citrus Green Salad and a Trip to Birmingham
I’m ending my OCD recipe contest rant by highlighting my biggest prize and honor—my first and only cook-off, Cooking Light’s “Ultimate Reader’s Contest,” 2009. I entered twenty-six recipes, everything from Chipotle Chicken Salad to Healthier Hoppin’ John. I was totally unprepared with what the editors picked: Mixed Citrus Green Salad. A salad? How the heck…
Pizza OCD: Bruschetta Pizza
My husband remembers a pizza parlor in his hometown that would place a chunky tomato sauce on top of the pizza. (It was a My Pi. I think some are still opened in the Chicago area—far from Tulsa where it used to be a teen hangout.) He raves about it, but alas, the parlor has…
Cook the Books and Food ‘n Flix Post: Food from the Hunger Games
I’m taking another break from my OCD Recipes Revisited to participate in another two of my manias: and Would you believe it? These two great online foodie clubs are pairing together this month. CTB club members are reading the novel and FnF members are watching the film and some of us are doing both. The hosts…
January SRC: Roasted Beet, Carrot and Garlic Cream Soup
Whew! The holidays are over and I am taking time out of my OCD Recipes Revisited mania for this month’s Secret Recipe Club post. SRC is a great group of bloggers directed by some even more spectacular blogger-hosts (Jane, Sarah, Suzanne, and the fabulous Group C host, Debbi.) To get more info on SRC,…
More OCD Revisited: Pappa al Pomodoro
I adapted this recipe from A Table in Tuscany by Leslie Forbes. I bought this cookbook on the bargain rack at a local bookstore MANY years ago. I think I actually bought two and gave one to my best friend as a gift. (We both dream about traveling and/or living in Tuscany one day!) I…
Herbed Olives
We have a couple of restaurants we frequent in Tulsa. One is The Tavern on Brady (that I have posted about a lot—see end of post for more details). The other is Edward Delk’s. We love the hummus and olives at Delk’s. We relish the burger, deviled eggs, olives and most specials that are on…
Cranberry Ginger Whole Wheat Quick Bread
I had grandiose ideas. Yes, I had done the The Twelve Days of Christmas for 2010 and I had done fourteen Christmas gift posts last year. This year promised to bring posts on “Gifts from the Kitchen 2012.” I had even written many drafts, some as far back as January 2012. I had lots of things…
Sock monkeys for adults
Remember the perennial sock monkey? I still have a vintage one that mom made me back in the day. (I will not tell you how long ago that was.) When the nieces and nephews were babies, I attempted to make some sock monkeys and even some sock elephants. I think the elephant is still waiting,…