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)….
Category: Recipes
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…
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…
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….