Tweet It’s finally spring and I’m so excited to greet some favorite produce again at the farmer’s market! I’ve already gone through 2 bunches of asaparagus in the last week and a half and I’m anxiously awaiting ripe local strawberries. The other day someone left a large bag labeled “free lemons” at work, and I was pleasantly [...]

Tweet This is the first slow cooker dish I’ve made with meat where the meat doesn’t need to be browned first. That’s a big plus for me, because if I’m putting dinner together at 6 or 7am, I don’t want to take the extra time to cook the meat first and I also don’t want [...]

Tweet Rambutan (pronounced ram-BYU-tn) is a funny looking red and hairy little fruit. I was only able to find it canned, so it came without it’s hairy shell, but you can see it in the can that is in the background of the picture below. Inside the shell, you will find small translucent white fruits, [...]

Tweet Happy Halloween! This week’s ingredient isn’t exactly creepy or orange, but if you’re in the holiday spirit, I found some recipes for you; here’s one for homemade candy corn, cupcake & crepe ghosts, mummy cookie pops, Halloween sugar cookies and glow in the dark drinks (did you know that tonic water glows under blacklight?). Back to our [...]