Recipes

If there's at least 30 minutes to spare for breakfast, a bowl of homemade oatmeal made with steel-cut oats and topped with walnuts, sliced banana, berries, a sprinkling of ground cinnamon and some plain kefir milk is my go-to edible start to the day. In the Tufts University … [Read more...] about Choose Steel-cut Not Rolled Oats For Your Morning Bowl Of Oatmeal

It was an easy decision to bake up some raspberry walnut muffins as a special treat in late summer given the still bountiful crop of raspberries in my backyard garden in early September in upstate New York. For Thanksgiving a few years ago, I posted a recipe for cranberry … [Read more...] about Raspberry Walnut Muffins Made With Backyard Raspberries Still Bountiful In September

It's been four years since environmental advocacy groups paid for an independent laboratory to test for industrial chemical phthalates in cheese. The testing resulted in the detection of phthalates in 29 of 30 varieties of cheese products. Ten different phthalates in all were … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama’s Cauliflower Mac and Cheese Recipe Tweaked For Local & Artisanal Cheese Lovers

The website Allrecipes has a remarkable number of Christmas Dessert Recipes, now numbering more than 1400. Its Favorite Old Fashioned Gingerbread recipe, described as "everyone's holiday favorite, even the busy cook's, because it is so easy to make" caught this home cook's eye … [Read more...] about Delicious Old Fashioned Gingerbread Using Wheat & Rye Flours For Extra Flavor

Alexa Weibel's 17 Recipes for a Small Thanksgiving Dinner in the New York Times (11/20/20) caught my eye in making preparations for a cozy meal of gratitude for only three. Alexa Weibel, the newspaper's senior staff editor for NYT Cooking, a digital source for thousands of … [Read more...] about Simple & Special Side Dish, Sourced Locally, Will Light Up Thanksgiving Table