I’m still on my salad kick, partially because I like salad, and partially because I’m doing penance for my holiday indulgences. Not regretting, mind you, just doing penance. No, I shall never regret that rummy fruitcake…*interruption to drool*…but salad is A Good Thing. Especially for my IBS. Today’s recipe is influenced by the Middle East (*cue…
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Salads I Have Known and Loved: Quinoa Crazy Salad
Why do I call this salad crazy? For two reasons: firstly, it’s a combo of whatever happens to be in your fridge at the time (sort of a salad version of my kitchen sink soup), and secondly, it’s a combination of sweet and savoury that somehow just…works, despite the crazy mix of ingredients. There’s dried…
Waste Not, Want Not: Hearty Meat & Potato Soup
Usually enriching refers to adding butter (often to a sauce or a stew) but I prefer to add nutrients. I also dislike waste. So whenever I have leftover veggie scraps, I pop them into a container in the freezer. And if I’m steaming or boiling veggies, I save the nutrient-rich water by pouring it over the…
Triple Almond Sugar Cookies and Why I Heart My Husband
I was super-sick on Monday, with a vaso-vagal reaction to an IBS attack, and the DH had to leave his work to pick me up from my work, as I was too ill to get home under my own steam. Then he tucked me up in bed with cold washcloths, warm blankets, weak tea and…
Salsa Smackdown: Pistol Packin’ Texas Caviar
I first made a variant on this recipe last year, when I had just come across the instructables.com site, and was ogling all the delicious recipes on it. Although it’s called Texas Caviar, it’s actually just a freshly chopped salsa, albeit with some heat from jalapeno peppers. Different people make it differently, and I make…