Chicken marsala has long been one of my favorite dishes. When I stopped eating chicken, I invented this recipe which uses tempeh instead. I usually serve it with mashed potatoes or brown rice, but I was out of both, so I served it with white rice. Tempeh Marsala Recipe 8 oz tempeh, sliced 2 medium… Continue Reading
Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe
I never buy premade cookies anymore. I can even walk past the Girl Scout cookie table outside the grocery store without a second thought! Why buy something along the lines of hockey pucks at worst, or filled with ingredients I don’t recognize at best when I can bake a batch of delicious homemade cookies from… Continue Reading
Classic Potato Salad Recipe
Potato salad is one of my perennial summer obsessions. There are enough delicious variations that it’s possible to go a whole summer without having the exact same one twice. This is a traditional version, and it’s the recipe I go for when I want a basic old fashioned potato salad. It doesn’t have any fancy… Continue Reading
Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
The chocolate cream pie of my childhood consisted of milk chocolate pudding mix dumped into a premade pie shell and topped with Cool Whip. That’s no way to live! Here’s the real deal…a flaky homemade crust with a filling of sugar, cocoa, milk, butter, eggs, flour, and vanilla, topped with real whipped cream, and finished… Continue Reading
Vegetarian Sloppy Joes Recipe
I love vegetarian food, but one of the hardest things about becoming a vegetarian as an adult is that by the time I reached my 20’s, my tastes were pretty much set, and it was hard to give up the foods I’ve loved all my life. Then, I realized that with a little creativity, I… Continue Reading
Yankee Cornbread Recipe
I love cornbread, but it was coming out too dry and crumbly. So, I decided to master it, and came up with this moist, honey-kissed, almost cake-like version that uses a 1:3 cornmeal to flour ratio. I think it’s just perfect, though I’m not sure my Southern friends will agree ;-) Yankee Cornbread Recipe 1… Continue Reading
Scallion Pancakes Recipe
Scallion pancakes are delicious, easy, and inexpensive to make! I serve them as a quick snack, or prelude to asian-inspired meals like my general tso’s tofu. Scallion Pancakes Recipe 1 cup flour 1 t sugar 1/2 t salt 3 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1/3 cup water 2 T toasted sesame oil 1 cup chopped scallions… Continue Reading