Peach Salsa

I went a salsa canning kick earlier this week. Unlike the 10 lbs of tomatoes I bought 2 weeks ago for $2.50, these 10 lbs (this time for $5) actually got almost all used BEFORE I had to cut off large chunks due to stupid fungus. I’m going to make these recipes VERY bare bones. [...]

Chicken/pork rub

Oh look, two recipes in one day! (you might even see a third if I am up for it) This recipe is by far the one I’ve used the most in the past two weeks. I got the base somewhere off allrecipes and then mangled it to be ours. And honestly, I haven’t made it [...]

My mom’s tomato sauce

I discovered the cookbook section of the university library that is across from my building on campus. This could be bad. Really bad. Or really tasty. This recipe is truly my mom’s recipe, and her mom’s recipe. I did not grow up eating tomato sauce from a jar. While my mom always used canned whole [...]

Cherry Ice Pops

This is the second time I’ve made these cherry ice pops. I’ve upped the sugar and the vanilla and I like them even more this go around than the first. If I’m not careful, I’ll eat the rest of these tonight. I’ve already had 2. And this last batch only made 4. Who knew I [...]

Yellow gluten free cake in a cup

If something here doesn’t make sense, please ask. I’m tired. But for whatever reason, resisting going to bed. There weren’t too many versions of this online that actually looked good that I’m not going to link to any of them. But I did have an ‘ah ha’ moment when I remembered this post from Gluten [...]

recipes in the works, and green beans

I’ve made a few things recently that I want to post, but I don’t want to post them until I’ve actually eaten them. I made maraschino cherries the other night. But they need to soak for two weeks, ideally. I might hold out to next week and then see how they taste. I also made [...]

Sauteed sugar snap/snow peas with carrots and honey glaze

This is an incredibly easy dish, but takes longer then I think it should. But it’s an easy summer side dish using mostly seasonal produce. Sauteed sugar snap/snow peas with carrots and honey glaze 1. Cut about 2-4 lb of carrots into a shape and width that roughly resembles your pea pods. 2. Steam them [...]

Iced ginger chai

I’m not too sure how Rascal is doing. His blood work came back better last week. His initial eosinophil count was 17 X10^3, the normal range is 0-2 x10^3. It came back at 4 last week. So whatever we did, or whatever his body is doing for itself, is helping. but he had a major [...]

Sweet and hot pepper dip

The ManBeast and I were at Brennan’s Friday. The great thing about Brennan’s is all the samples they put out. I tried everything that appeared to be gluten free. But the one thing that stuck out in the ManBeast’s and my memory was the sweet and hot pepper dip. But at $8 for a tub, [...]

Is gluten intolerance real?

If you are around the alternative health blogs at all, or really many mainstream health sources these days, you might have seen mention that ‘perhaps a gluten free diet can help you too!’ But if you don’t have celiac disease, is going gluten free of any use? Are there gluten issues other than celiac disease [...]

Beef Stir Fry – urb inspired

I don’t often make recipes from use real butter, and I’m not sure why. But I do regularly check out her posts for inspiration, often times combine useful techniques or flavor combinations with what I have on hand, or what I know we like. This was the case with dinner tonight. Beef stir fry – [...]

Jovial cookies – product review

I had time to kill Friday evening after finishing errands and before the ManBeast needed to be picked up from campus. As I am wont to do when I’ve got time to kill on the west side of town, I decided to wander around Whole Foods. I was fiending for something, but I didn’t really [...]

Gluten free cake in a cup

I was at a meeting this evening were cupcakes were served afterwards in celebration. Of course they weren’t gluten free and of course I wanted some. So I looked up some cake in a cup recipes when I got home. I didn’t see any one recipe that struck me as being good, so I did [...]

Broiled lamb arm chops

I know I’ve said it before, and I should say it again to remind myself, but I really shouldn’t buy lamb arm chops. The ones we got this time weren’t very fatty, but there just isn’t a lot of meat on them, and one of them, the center bone was huge. But at least they [...]

Chinese style ribs

I’m home sick today with some sort of upper respiratory viral infection. I thought it was my allergies, being as I ran out of my normal antihistamine Saturday and thought it a wise idea to use up the back store I had of less than ideal antihistamine. So when I got a sore throat, I [...]