The DH is still overseas, so I am continuing to sublimate my worry by baking. Baking, the panacea for all worries, since…forever? I can totally see a cavewoman doing this, far back into the reaches of time. Silly caveman out on a hunt for a wooly mammoth? Sublimate worries by collecting berries and grains and…
Recipe Smackdown
Fruitcake Smackdown: Loaf version!
I love fruitcake. There. I’ve said it. I know it’s much maligned, but I really do love it. My mother used to make it when I was younger, and I used to hold up the slices to the light and try to see through the fruitcake, imagining that the candied fruits were pieces in a…
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…
Salsa Smackdown: Corn and Tomato Salsa, with Chili Lime Mayo
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…
Poundcake Smackdown: The winner is…
Last night after work I came home and started on the second of the pound cake recipes, the one that I found on the back of a notecard. I followed the recipe pretty closely, although I was a bit surprised at the amount of sugar it asked for, 2 1/4 cups. I did make one “mistake”…