I made this chili-topped loaded baked potato for dinner maybe a year and a half ago, and it was pretty tasty! It had never occurred to me to top baked potatoes with anything like chili, as I grew up with plain baked potatoes — no unhealthy (albeit tasty!) sour cream and bacon bits and such…
Carrot Ginger Stew served with Quinoa and Arugula
I came up with this recipe when trying to make a carrot ginger soup a few years ago. I had done a bunch of substitutions and just left out other ingredients and then decided not to puree the soup at all, and voila, carrot ginger stew was born! This dish freezes well and looks good in…
Memories of Meals Past: Roasted Harvest Veggies
Today’s Memory of Meals Past (a memory I made tonight. What?!? It counts!) comes to you thanks to a recipe I found on Food52, a very cool foodie blog. I think it’s kind of au courant, especially on twitter. I find the tweets very savvy and on-trend. (Cool. Au courant. Savvy. On-trend. Are you sensing a foodie crush…
On My Mind: Traffic, the Increasing of, and Baking the French Way
So I’ve been trying different ways to boost traffic to my site. I like to think that I have some tasty, easy recipes and hopefully write about them in an entertaining way, so I think I’ve got the content bit somewhat covered, although of course I always want to improve (and always have a to do list of improvements to make,…
Pumpkin Cinnamon Buns and Why Insomnia Makes Me a Good Cook
My breakfast this morning was a freshly baked Pumpkin Cinnamon Bun! I’ve been meaning to make a pumpkin version of the traditional sweet bun for a while now and I finally put it together last night, let it rise overnight, and baked it this morning. It’s not a Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Bun, but I think…