A 28-ounce can of pumpkin turns out to hold rather a lot of pumpkin puree. I had originally bought it for, I think, pumpkin muffins. I made those, then I made some pumpkin cookies, then I narrowly avoided making pumpkin pancakes, and I still had more than a cup of pumpkin left. Fortunately, my friend […]
Up until recently, it was so hot that I actually looked for ways to avoid turning on the oven. (Turns out that you can make baked tofu in a crock pot.) The weather let up a little this week, but not before the LA Times published a coleslaw article. And not boring old cabbage-and-mayo coleslaws […]
I do not get along with doughs and pie crusts. Let me rephrase that. I like eating them very much, but I am bad at yeast-raised breads, impatient with frozen phyllo dough and not at all fond of doing pie crusts by hand. Until I got my greedy hands on J.’s food processor, I would […]
I love my slow cooker more than I love any other kitchen appliance. It allows me to put things on to roast or simmer and walk away for hours at a time, saing me the boredom of actually monitoring them. (If that sounds dangerous to you, remember that I usually work at home.) When I […]
