Super Easy Thick Delicious Greek Style Yogurt

A few weeks ago I showed you how to make yogurt in your slow cooker and mentioned how I used it to make Greek style yogurt. To make this tick, almost cream cheese like yogurt, simply put the yogurt in a strainer lined with a clean thin dishtowel (or preferably cheesecloth which I didn’t have)….

5 Great Ways To Use Up Hard Boiled Easter Eggs

Easter is now a memory but the dozens of hard boiled eggs in the fridge remain. I’ve scoured the web to find 5 great ways to use up those dyed delights. Continue Reading ….

Moist and Fluffy Chocolate Espresso Muffins

  Frequently I make up my own dinner recipes, marinades etc. but I have never been able to make up a recipe that involved baking until now. I recently got a kitchen scale and started researching about ratios in baking. I’ve learned that for muffins you should combine 2 parts flower with 2 parts liquid with 1…

Slow Cooker Yogurt – Make Yogurt In Your Slow Cooker or CrockPot

So I’ve always thought that I didn’t like yogurt but I buy it because my kids do. Purchasing organic yogurt (greek yogurt too)  can get expensive and I’ve heard that you can make yogurt in a slow cooker so I started looking around at various recipes for slow cooker yogurt and found some short and…

Garlicky Feta and Black Bean Dip

Today we were hankering for chips but had barely any salsa. Tortilla chips are fine alone but they’re much better with something to dip them in. I hit the pantry intent on pulling out some chickpeas to make hummase but we were out. All I found was a lowly can of black beans. So I…

Check out my Guest Post at Maroc Mama

Today Maroc Mama was kind enough to run my guest post about her Indi’rockin Chicken Tikka Recipe. Maroc Mama has some really great recipes and giveaways so if you get a chance head on over and check it out!

Chris’ Delicious Whole Wheat Pancakes from Scratch

Over the summer we had the opportunity to go away for a week with friends to the Delaware bay.  It was there that my breakfast making forever changed.  I learned how to cook bacon in the oven (a whole pound in under 20 minutes but I’ll leave that for another post) and I also learned…

One Chicken, Two Easy Meals.

We are still fairly new to the non vegetarian lifestyle.  Up until about 6 months ago my husband and children were vegetarians.  I was not but never cooked meat in the house.  In a quest to eat more whole foods and natural non processed foods my family decided to eat meat at home.  We purchase our chickens and grass fed beef through a…

Apple Pie with a Kick – My Curry Apple Pie Recipe

The results of the pie contest at my CSA are in and I …… did not win.  I was close though.  There were 27 great looking pies there and I ended up being very close, fourth place.  Even though I didn’t win I had a great time creating the recipe for my curry apple pie…

Pie Day!

Today is the day I’ve been waiting for, preparing for and practicing for!  Today I’m entering my Curry Apple Pie recipe in  a pie baking competition at our CSA’s harvest festival sponsored by Greener Partners.  I have made many test pies and tired various things to perfect the type of pie that I was going to make….