I love sweet pickles. Recently I ordered some beets in my groceries, but this was early during the pandemic. So they were out of beets, and instead gave me a 16 oz package of “beet noodles” (like zucchini noodles, only…
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Recipe: No-Bake Lemon Cheesecake
I love lemon no-bake cheesecake. Here’s the one I put together recently. I’d looked at recipes online and found three main methods: mix sweetened condensed milk with the cream cheese and let that set; fold the cream cheese mixture with…
Ending the Imperfect Produce Experiment
It was a good experiment, one that I wrote about here and here. To recap: I figured that if I had a box of mixed produce showing up on my doorstep every week, it would make me cook with more…
Recipe: Coconut Tapioca Pudding (with Ginger)
Anyone who spends any time here knows I love all things custard and pudding. Tapioca is a favorite. Ingredients: 2 (13.5 oz) cans coconut milk* 1/4 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup tapioca granules 1 teaspoon vanilla Optional: 1/4…
Cookbook Review: “Ruffage,” Abra Berens
Pros: Some decent basic instructions Cons: Very uneven and unbalanced recipes Rating: 2 out of 5 I haven’t had much room or energy to cook since moving a couple of years ago, so I haven’t been buying many cookbooks. Part…
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Gifts to My Future Self, Part II
In Gifts to My Future Self, I explained that I’m trying out the Imperfect Produce weekly veggie box and the Rotten Fruit monthly seasonal freeze-dried fruit boxes in order to get myself eating better. The Rotten Fruit Box took forever…
Recipe: Lamb Shank and Lentil Stew with Collard Greens
I started subscribing to the Imperfect Produce box (see this post), and this week’s box came with a big ol’ bunch of collard greens. I decided to use them to make a lamb shank and lentil stew with collard greens.…
Gifts to My Future Self
Most of my gifts to my future self are pre-ordered books. At some point in the future Amazon will alert me that a new ebook has been sent to my kindle, and hey! Something unexpected and fun to read! Lately…
Recipe: Vanilla White Chocolate Tapioca
A friend who knows how much I love custards and puddings sent me a link to a recipe for Chocolate Tapioca Pudding. I decided I’d like to make vanilla white chocolate tapioca and adapted the following recipe to suit: Ingredients:…
Recipe: Vanilla White Chocolate Eggnog
I was going to make white chocolate tapioca pudding, but it turned out that my tapioca was stale, so it didn’t thicken. After noting that the result was basically white chocolate eggnog, I decided to actually try making vanilla white…