The zest is a must
Alma asked for grilled cheese for dinner tonight, and I just realized that I never blogged my grilled cheese. When I make grilled cheese I always make it with some kind of sautéed greens, often chard, but sometimes turnip greens or beet greens or (if I m desparate) kale or spinach. Alma loves it. Whenever she [ ]
I enjoyed eating Shakshuka at a cafe in Israel, so I tried making Ottolenghi s Shakshuka recipe from Plenty back in 2016. It wasn t a great success. (See notes below.) A few years ago I tried this shakshuka recipe from Serious Eats, but Alma mostly ended up eating white bread, and Derek wasn t excited. But today [ ]
This morning Alma and I made a smoothie together for breakfast. It came out quite well so we decided to write up roughly what we did. We didn t measure anything so these amounts are all guesses. Ingredients: High-protein skyr, two large, heaping soup spoons full, maybe 3 to 4 Tablespoons? Soymilk, maybe 1 or 1.5 [ ]
Alma invited a friend over after school, and I had to quickly figure out what to feed them for lunch. I had a bunch of odds and ends in my fridge and decided to use them up by making a vegetable soup. I started out with this New York Times recipe for cabbage soup, but [ ]
We had company last night and one of our guests eats keto, so Alma went searching for a keto-friendly dessert. She chose this keto chocolate mug cake recipe and added a few frozen raspberries to the top. Everyone thought it was pretty good for a keto dessert. Unlike the last keto brownies she made, this [ ]
We needed a quick meal for dinner tonight, and we had sweet potatoes, carrots, and broccoli in the fridge exactly the vegetables called for in this recipe from Jill Nussinow s cookbook Vegan Under Pressure (page 151). I was a bit nervous about the peanut sauce recipe since it calls for balsamic vinegar, which seems [ ]
There is some super easy tiramisu / Japanese cheesecake recipe made from Biscoff (speculos) cookies and greek yogurt that s going like wildfire around social media. I decided to try it. I started with this recipe, then adapted it a bit. Ingredients: 1 tub plain 5% greek yogurt, 750g I used a 500g container of [ ]
I ve been experimenting with various yogurt fruit bowls and today I tried a recipe from Dominique Ludwig. She says this yogurt flax bowl is very tasty and a great way to start your day: 150g yogurt (The original recipe called for strained Greek yogurt with 10g protein / 100g, but I used skyr plus a [ ]
I have blogged three different versions of vegan meatballs. One was made with tempeh, the second with soybeans, and the third with tofu. None were quite what I was looking for, so I decided to try again with this recipe from this vegan meatballs recipe from Love and Lemons. They look gorgeous in the photos [ ]
I am looking for some new make-ahead breakfast ideas and wanted to make something with beans. I decided to try this pretty simple instant pot khichdi recipe from v8well. Ingredients: 3/4 cup [135g] basmati rice [I would try a bit less next time, maybe 2/3 cup 120g] 1 cup [120g] yellow moong dal 1 [ ]