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I really dislike the Food Network show called Throw Down as I think Bobby Flay should say shove it and not be lowered to such humiliation, but somehow when I found out the challenge was soft pretzels, I failed to turn the TV off last night. I miss those chewy salty doughy pretzels every […]

Ginger Lemon Girl is again hosting this week’s menu swap. Swing over to her site and check out all the menus!
Sunday: Ethopian
Doro Wot from Saveur and red lentil stew on rice as my Injera bread did not work.
Monday: Classic French American
Grass fed steaks on the grill with bearnaise sauce (from scratch), tator […]

Ok, I know I am a day late here with my menu of the week (see the next post), but I have a good excuse.
Saturday afternoon, my boyfriend decided that he wanted to cook brunch for everyone (8 of us) on Sunday. He started picking up my recipe books and started making a grocery […]

This week’s menu swap is hosted by Ginger Lemon Girl!
Once again I am attempting to get organized.
1. It makes it a lot easier to plan ahead and not spend a lot of time every afternoon thinking about what to cook that eve.
2. It saves on trips to the grocery store.
3. I have a […]

It’s about time I started doing this, so here is my first shot at it:
Monday: Turkish pide with meat and mozzarella (kind of like a folded up pizza with pita dough). We were in Chicago last weekend and my BF ordered this at a wonderful Turkish restaurant called Cousins. It looked soooo […]

I have been a busy gardener lately. Lots of tomato canning, tomatillo canning and freezing beans. My eggplants still have a tinge of green around the purple, so to me that means not ripe. I am going to attempt to freeze those some how as they are always all ripe at once. […]

Well this started out as a food, knitting and brewing blog and got a little side tracked by all things food. I just started a new knitting project. People all around me seem to be in baby having mode, so I have started a baby blanket for my good friends who think they […]

I can eat spelt. I held on to my disbelief until a few moments ago. Actually I am still there. I don’t know what to think. When one door closes (gluten) and another one opens (gluten free and feeling healthy again) and then opens further (spelt) is it a bit flabbergasting. […]

Today’s the day. I am getting another endoscope and biopsy to see what, if anything, spelt consumption has done to my body. Nervous? No, not until I got up this morning. Up until I had been looking forward to it. Now the truth is coming. Last year I already […]

Ok, I tried the pretzels, no reaction. I had some of the spaghetti noodles for lunch and no reaction (they were nice and light). Before trying something else from the box of goodies sent to me, I decided that if I was going to react, I want it to be over a nice […]