Nourish . . .
You may not be baking the daily bread or growing your own bounty to harvest, but if you’re trying to serve up nourishment with a healthy perspective, you’re helping light the way to better nutrition. I’m marking another year at The Cookery (three years this week), and applauding all who are trying to sustain and […]
New Year Wishes and Dishes
Best wishes in 2011, Cookery companions. I hope the closing weeks of 2010 found you around the table with friends and family. We celebrated the final stretch of 2010 with hot tamales in Texas, and started the new year with mountain roast coffee in Colorado. It’s time to flip the switch back on at our own Cookery, and […]
Breathe easy with edible gifts
Edible gifts may not work for everyone on your giving list, but if you’re looking for a modest present to share the spirit of giving with a friend, borrow one of these ideas from our friends and neighbors. We enjoy the gifts of fresh fruit, cookies, coffee, fudge, assorted cheeses and freshly baked bread, and our kids […]
Have yourself a little chocolate fudge
As hoped by more than one of us, the festive tins have arrived, and their contents produced a little joy and guilty pleasure. Around The Cookery, these tins are filled with Pa’s Famous Fudge, and we love and appreciate receiving them every year. Want to share a merry little batch of joy? Mix up Pa’s Famous Fudge.
Don’t wait to send those treats to your troops
If you’re thinking about getting a care package off to a loved one far from home, don’t wait too much longer. I had a relatively short wait in the mailing line with the U.S. Postal Service, but the lines are getting longer this week, and delivery projections are edging closer to the new year. Here […]
Beauty school dropout warms up breakfast
Warm up with quick carrot quiche This quiche may not win any beauty contests, but if you want to warm up with breakfast, this low maintenance variation of carrot quiche is the perfect runner-up to a high maintenance thing of beauty. 1 refrigerated pie crust dough for 9-inch pie 4 medium eggs, beaten ¼ cup milk […]
Second life cranberry sauce smoothies
With homemade or almost homemade, give cranberry sauce a second life. Enjoy your weekend with cranberry smoothies. Peace!
Date night gets luscious with this simple salad
Sweeten up the menu for date night with Medjool dates. Dates may be nature’s candy, and I hesitate to calculate the calories, but ever since I started craving these while I was a puffy pregnant woman, Medjool dates remain near the top of my all-time natural favorites list. If you can find them fresh, you’re off to a sweet […]
Bento Box filled with healthy fun for one
Yum-Yum Bento Box How long does it take to fix a school lunch? For the experienced parent, good at keeping chips or the equivalent, fruit and veggies, a sandwich and a treat, maybe two minutes. That’s unless the peanut butter has separated or the jelly cowers at the unreachable bottom of the jar. It’s a […]
Tangy sweet potato soup
Do you ever try to hide ingredients to disguise food for your kids? That’s a tough call. I don’t endorse hiding ingredients, and my kids have grown to expect a variety of vegetables at meal time. They also know that soup makes an appearance at our table often, and this time of year, I break out […]