Homemade Breakfast: Muesli & Granola

Homemade Breakfast: Muesli & Granola

Breakfast is usually proclaimed to be the most important meal of the day. Why is it then that most of us mindlessly reach for a box of sugary cereal in the grocery aisle, rather than make our own? I enjoy eating cereal. Not the lighter-than-air sugar-laden, or...
Homemade French Vanilla Ice Cream

Homemade French Vanilla Ice Cream

Vanilla ice cream may sound blah and boring to some, but it is the most versatile of all the ice cream flavors. Even though summer is officially over, apple pie season is in full swing.  As there is no à la mode without ice cream, stashing a few pints of a sinfully...
Grilled Baba Ghannouj

Grilled Baba Ghannouj

This is where I come clean. I am NOT a fan of eggplant. I’m not. Honestly. I never have been.  For me, more often than not, eggplant was always overcooked, mushy, and watery, and left little to be desired on either the flavor, or the texture front. Until...
Whole Wheat Pita Bread

Whole Wheat Pita Bread

Pita is a Middle Eastern flat bread that is not only easy to make, but also versatile. Truly fresh pita though can be difficult to find, as pita bread is never as good as when it first comes fresh from the oven. Most pita bread sold in local markets, unless it is...
Zucchini Pickles

Zucchini Pickles

Our perennial problem each summer is what to do with the bumper crop of summer squash we harvest from the garden. Most vegetable gardeners invariably grow too much zucchini, and no doubt many of us end up passing along our excesses to unsuspecting friends, and...
Cheese Making: A Simple Chèvre

Cheese Making: A Simple Chèvre

As much fun as it is for us to now have goats bouncing around the farm, the part we’re most looking forward to is having our own farm-fresh goat’s milk. However, Lotus and Minnie are only 4 1/2 months old, so it’s going to be a while before these...