Thank you to Pamela’s Products for sponsoring this post. In the last few weeks, I’ve read a bunch of articles and blog posts on the subject of home-cooked family dinners. The big question is: are they more pain than they’re worth? My opinion lies somewhere in the middle of that argument, as there are plenty of opinions to go around on both sides. I think it’s so, so important to sit down as a family as […]
In my gluten-free baking adventures, I have been experimenting with green banana flour (affiliate link) and decided to try creating a new gluten-free chocolate chip cookies recipe. As you know. there are SO many chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. And to those, I add what my family and I think is probably THE best version out there. Now, I don’t say that lightly. I had almost given up all hope of making a truly […]
Let’s talk leftover ham. I’m always late posting these things…I’m sure you’ve all eaten your leftover Easter ham. I stuck mine in the freezer because we had so much of it. And then my mom gave me her leftovers, too. We were at Aunt Robbie’s a few weeks ago and we made the best panini with leftover ham. I saw something similar in a magazine or on a blog somewhere. (Forgive me for not remembering […]
This, my friends, is a molcajete. I received this as a birthday gift in 2004 from some dear friends. My friend, a very good cook in his own right, hauled this and one for himself, all the way from Mexico to NY. It’s as heavy as it looks. Fast forward 3+ years, I am finally getting around to learning how to use a molcajete. Now I am addicted! What is a Molcajete? The traditional Mexican […]