Category Archives: Sides

Sweetly Spiced Yogurt Pudding

We just had a week filled with birthday celebrating. Silas has had three separate birthday celebrations – all of them including homemade treats and cooking. I made a vanilla cake with salted caramel meringue buttercream filling. The process of making … Continue reading

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Gluten Free Green Chile Sweet Corn Mac and Cheese

The last week has been a whirlwind. While I’ve got more than a few recipes ready to show up on this little blog, the last handful of days have been long and come 10:30 at night, the last thing I … Continue reading

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Crock Pot Yogurt

I have a knack for pinning lots of recipes on Pinterest, then like many within the world, forget about those pins entirely. Sometimes that isn’t the case. A recipe will creep into my head and reside there until I follow … Continue reading

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Little Pastas with Seitan, Herbs and Cheese

On evenings like this, where the only sounds echoing through our downtown Ashland home comes from the downpour happening outside my open windows, there’s a peacefulness. Perhaps it’s the comfort I’ve always found in water. I could spend hours in … Continue reading

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Homemade Crab Cakes with a Spicy Sauce

Sometime over the last two weeks, I dropped out of the blogosphere. Life happens. It moves. Time tucks itself into moments that don’t feel like they’re flying by while they’re escaping you right under your grimy garden-dirt coated fingers, or … Continue reading

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Creamy Herb Potato Leek Soup

Sometimes I forget what it’s like to cook with additional little hands in the kitchen. That sounds really creepy, I know. I’m referring to cooking with kids, not miscellaneous spare body parts I’ve failed to confess to owning. I have … Continue reading

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Slow Cooked Black Beans

The most simplistic recipes often are not born out of a lack of creativity, nor a lack of skills in the kitchen. Sometimes simplicity is both competence and comprehensibility of the ingredients at hand. Knowing that you can put X, … Continue reading

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Jalapeño Cheddar Buttermilk Cornbread

Whirl-wind weeks. They come and go, but damn… when they hit, it’s from every angle. I am writing this post from an i-Pad. My laptop – you know the one holding every back up of my posts here, all the … Continue reading

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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Vanilla Marmalade Pull-Apart Bread

Yesterday, my dad came up to Ashland for a visit. I somehow managed to not take a single photo (as evidence, or as a possible inclusion in this coming Sunday’s Day to Day Life post… C’est la vie). The last … Continue reading

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Apple Halves with Chèvre and Honey

I’ll admit – posting the following recipe absolutely feels like cheating. It’s not fancy, it’s not intricate, it’s not labor intensive, or evenly remotely time consuming. But it’s a delicious snack that I threw together out of sheer hunger… Speaking … Continue reading

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