Remember my first Recipe Smackdown, about Lemon Poundcakes? Well, it’s time for another one, a Salsa Smackdown! Today’s salsa recipe is a Corn and Tomato Salsa that tastes way better than the boring name suggests. I tore it from a free magazine in a subway newsagent stall. Let me see…it’s from the mid-summer 2014 edition of Our Homes…
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Sour Milk Toaster Pancakes
I woke up this morning and made the DH some sour milk pancakes, as a thank you for transferring my 10kg bag of flour (I kid you not) into smaller and more manageable containers. I think I use about two of those bags a year, plus significantly less whole wheat flour. I try to enrich…
Cornbread with Strawberry Peach Jam
You know how I said that this post would mention why my wedding thank you cards are late? It’s because it’s so easy to become distracted with new and shiny projects when there are slight blocks to doing chores. Although, technically, the thank you cards aren’t late. According to the general rule of wedding etiquette,…
Creamy Sundried Tomato & Kale Pasta, Plus How I Handle Leftovers
Once I joined Instagram (@approachingfood, in case you want to follow me), I began following fellow foodies, and came across someone who had made a creamy sundried tomato pasta sauce. Using that as inspiration, I looked around my kitchen, poked around my fridge to see what dibs and dabs of this and that were floating…
Tropical Coconut & Banana Nice Cream, Plus Adventures in Baby Food
What with the warmer temperatures lately, I’ve been craving ice cream (like my Gluten-free Chunks ‘o Brownie Ice Cream or my No Churn Strawberry Ice Cream) the way I usually crave fruits and veggies, so I’ve had to come up with some healthy options so that I don’t gain back the baby weight that I’ve…