Don’t be afraid! I didn’t actually make pickles and nectarines, although I think that sounds kind of good. What you are looking at is a jar of pickled nectarines and they taste incredible. I recommend that you go out as soon as you finish reading this post and buy a bunch of fresh nectarines. That’s […]
Play-Dough Cookies
Yeah…that’s how Zach feels about these cookies! I have always loved playing with my food, so making a cookie that I (I mean Zach) can actually play with before baking is perfect. On a play date a few months ago, a friend of mine made cookie batter for the kids to play with and it […]
Banana Blueberry Streusel Bread
Every week, I buy new bananas for the house because I have two hungry children who love bananas. But sometimes they hang in the corner of my kitchen for a while and don’t get touched…and then they turn brown. Poor bananas! Feeling abandoned and alone, I usually use the overripe fruit for banana cakes, breads […]
Zwetschgenkuchen (Plum Cake)
So what is Zwetschgenkuchen? And how do you pronounce it? I never say it right, but I guess you would say tsvetch-gen-kuchen. If you really can’t say it, just call it a plum cake, or a plum kuchen. Basically, it is the #1 dish that my father-in-law asks me to bake for him when I […]
German-Style Pickled Eggs
I never really thought I would be pickling anything, let alone eggs! But along came an intriguing German-style recipe for pickled eggs from allrecipes.com (one of my favorite recipe sites) as I was searching for deviled egg recipes. They had me at “German”! So I changed directions from deviled to pickled and I’m so glad I did. […]
MozzArepa Express
I hear you asking yourselves “What is a MozzArepa? And why does it look so tasty?” After my sister-in-law, Erica, asked me to make the frickles, she didn’t come to me with any other interesting recipes. She certainly enjoyed the fruits of my labor, but I was waiting for her to come up with another crazy […]
