Applesauce at the grocery store, particularly those single-serving brands that go into kids’ lunchboxes, usually contain either sugar or fake sugar, such as Sucralose (like Splenda). Unfortunately Mott’s Original and
At first, it didn’t seem possible to me that cauliflower could substitute well in mashed potatoes but, except for a slightly different texture, it’s excellent. I’m not big on using
Today I had a weird craving for me, which was to walk in through the back door after work and head straight to the frig for a beer! I only
Pleasant Hill Produce was set up outside of England Acres farm store on Saturday morning and had a wide variety of produce. The owners are Heather (also my daughter’s algebra
Can you imagine going a whole year and never eating the same thing twice? That’s what I’m doing, because if I eat the same thing twice I won’t have something
I was reading an article in the October Cooking Light magazine where a chef, Cory Bahr, was talking about the versatility of turnips. He grew up with turnips (in Louisiana)
For the first time I attended a birthday that had a fruit cake – not a fruitcake, but a cake made only out of fruit. It was for a child’s
While many articles say that you don’t need sugar in canning, almost all of the recipes have sugar. I wanted to use up all of the sweet peppers from Full
If you follow my blog, you may know my kids are Russian. Two of them (13 and 16) got together and made this great Borscht. When they first arrived from
There was a recipe I wanted to try that called for lamb rib chops but all I remembered when I was talking to the farmer’s wife at the market was