These cornmeal waffles are a great change-up from your typical waffles. Life has been a little crazy lately. Reuben’s grandpa passed recently and my grandma on my mom’s side passed this last week. It all happened in such a whirl that it’s hard for me to stop and think. Feel. We have spent many…
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Cooking Inspiration + Life Lately
I have been obsessed with roasting veggies lately. Here’s a little something that I dreamed up: Roasted Vegetable Chicken Alfredo. I baked up a pan of broccoli, grape tomatoes and garlic (drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt) and added it to a basic Alfredo sauce. It was awesome. By the way,…
Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts
This was originally posted on October 22, 2012 on Cooking for Seven. I enjoyed these Oven Roasted Brussles Sprouts so much last fall, and I’m excited to roast up another batch. Perhaps I have been spared a bit of the usual hatred for Brussels Sprouts by the simple fact that my mom didn’t cook them…
Summer In a Jar | Homemade Peach Jam
This Homemade Peach Jam is SO easy to make (no pressure cooker or pectin required!) – it’s like keeping a bit of summer in jars. This spring I vowed that I would buy heaps of peaches to freeze for the winter months. I’ve tried buying out-of-season peaches before, and they…
Grandma’s Cooking School: Chocolate Crepes
This post, entitled Grandma’s Cooking School: Chocolate Crepes, was originally posted on March 8, 2010 on Cooking for Seven. Because these lessons were such an important part of my life, I will be re-posting them here. {Grandma’s Cooking School is my chronicles of the informal cooking lessons that my Grandma graciously decided to give us…
Hearty Pasta Sauce From Scratch
This Hearty Pasta Sauce from Scratch is easy to make but so yummy! Pasta sauce is one of those things that’s just hard to mess up. As long as you start with good ingredients, you’re sure to end with something delicious. While at the farmers market the other day, I was inspired by seeing all…