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Recipe: Creamy Apple Cider Vinaigrette

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a recipe, and I have a backlog of them to post. Last week, I needed to do something with some overripe apples that have been sitting in the fridge for a long while (DH’s forgotten snack pile). I really liked the apple cider vinaigrette I’ve tried at Saladworks (paired with my fave Farmhouse salad), so I decided to make my own homemade dressing. Were I to retry this recipe in the future, I would probably omit the cinnamon and increase the ground ginger to give the dressing more bite.

Ingredients (adapted fro

Recipe: Pumpkin Coconut Cornbread Pudding

Cornbread pudding is relatively easy to make, especially when baking with pre-mixed boxed cornbread. But to add a little variety, here’s an autumn spin on cornbread pudding: Cornbread ingredients (adapted from Comfybelly.com): 1/2 cup cornmeal 1/4 cup coconut flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 2 jumbo eggs 1/4 cup coconut oil 2 tablespoons…

Recipe: Lemon Garlic Vinaigrette

<![CDATA[ Is there such a thing as too much garlic? Nooooo! I love this as a salad dressing or a marinade to fish/salmon. Garlic – Raw, 85 g Pompeii – Lemon Juice (From Concentrate), 2 fl oz Truvia – Artificial Sweetener, 3 tsp Food Club – 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 10 Tbsp Kroger –…

Recipe: Chili Garlic Mukimame with Crab and Salmon

Oh, mukimame…how I love thee. You’re the soybean of my dreams, unfettered and free. (Why is it that edamame removed from husks are referred to as “shelled” while imprisoned they are “unshelled”? Seems backward to me.) While I was shopping at the grocery for a low-fat meat ingredient to go with soybeans, I recalled an…

Recipe: Baked Panko Coconut Yogurt Chicken

This recipe got the stamp of approval from my fiancee. I had been thinking about doing something with the leftover coconut flakes from my mango bread pudding recipe from last week. I also had some panko breadcrumbs that I thought about using in another chicken recipe. After surfing the net for some ideas, I came…

Recipe: Finding the perfect cheese bread recipe

It’s been largely miss in my hit-or-miss attempt to perfect the pao de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) recipe. I think I’ve nailed down the ingredients and nearly all the measurements, but I still can’t get my bread to contain all the air pockets and produce a “LIGHT” bread. Most of my attempts have resulted in…

Recipe: Adobo Turkey Tails

Turkey tails! I spotted these in the frozen meat section of my local grocery store. Since I’m a big fan of tails, I thought I would do something with these tails. Originally I thought of smoking or frying them, but I stumbled on an idea on the internet that sounded really great. Adobo turkey tails!…

Recipe: Cheese-Mayo Baked Mussels

Baked mussels is a mainstay of many Asian menus and buffets. We had some leftover black mussels from our seafood broth experiment and I decided to use them to make cheese baked mussels. I used the an internet recipe as a guide to making the mayo sauce since I didn’t have any Kewpie mayo on-hand….

New lessons in broth making

As part of a New Year’s eve feast, we went with lobster for our meal. Unfortunately, pre-cooked lobster = fail. The man didn’t have much time to go hunt down fresh live lobster and settled for the cheap $$ frozen lobster he found at Kroger. Unless you plan on using the lobster meat as some…

A week of Christmas feasting

Four days before Christmas (Saturday): crock pot whole wheat lasagna with beef and sage pork sausage. It cooked perhaps a little too long with not enough sauce. Luckily, we had jars of sauce to make additional batches to ladle on. Remember to add some sugar, spice and cinnamon for an added kick! Sunday: Smoked turkey…