December 2009
1 post
Delicious Goodness of the Day
- Slice of brie (half off at Kroger)
- 1 Mary’s Gone Cracker (that are now GONE from my dad’s pantry)
- A tiny bit of my grandfather’s amazing and homemade mayhaw jelly
Mmmmm.
September 2009
5 posts
on the menu
To preface this post, I would like to say that somehow I haven’t been grocery shopping in weeks—I’ve just been managing to use alllll of my produce and also used a lot of canned/boxed food that I had forgotten about. SO I woke up this morning and knew that today was the day—the day to buy groceries.
After spending way too much time at the store (as usual), I came home and...
Soy-lebrations
As I previously posted, September is National Biscuit Month, and so in order to celebrate I made some delicious and very easy biscuits. I found recipes online, and since most of them called for shortening, which I didn’t have, I chose a really simple one with just flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and milk. I’m not a huge milk fan, and so I didn’t have any of that, but I...
Nat'l Biscuit Month
As humans have to always have something to arbitrarily celebrate, someone at some point in time deemed the month of September National Biscuit Month (though I’m not complaining). As it is so, I plan on celebrating the existence of the biscuit by covering it in this delicious product, Dream (manufactured by the South Georgian company Blackberry Patch®), and I suggest you do the same.
Lately I have been wanting to make a tomato sauce completely from scratch— without any canned anythings, just fresh vegetables and herbs. So i did it, with tomatoes, garlic, onions, parsley, basil, ground coriander, and some other somethings. With the sauce, I planned on making a sort of faux eggplant parmesan, faux because I didnt have any breadcrumbs and I didn’t feel like going...
August 2009
2 posts
Tonight I experimented for the first time in making an olive tapenade, using black olives I got from the Dekalb Farmer’s Market this weekend (which, by the way, is amazing). In addition to the olives, I minced and added some garlic, red chilis, and fresh basil, all of which were also from the Farmer’s Market. I deem the dish a delicious success.