Recipes

Roasted Garlic Cheddar Bread

Roasted Garlic Cheddar Bread

Notes This is a no-knead bread. It makes 4 one-pound loaves. You can double it or halve it, and the bread dough will keep for about a week in the fridge. You need to roast the garlic before baking the bread. The roasted garlic recipe can be scaled up to as many bulbs...

Colcannon with Mushrooms and Leeks

Colcannon with Mushrooms and Leeks

This is one of those “base recipes” I make. It’s a little different every time, depending on what ingredients I have on hand. I will note that this time I made it with roasted garlic, and that is a game changer. I served it alongside of a good kielbasa, but it also...

Easy Corn Succotash

I'm still working out this recipe, but I'm including it anyway because I want to save the current status and ingredients list. There's a fair number of variations on succotash and I'm taste-testing my way around, to find out what works for both A) I love it and B) I...

Instant Pot Egg Bites

Instant Pot Egg Bites

This makes a double batch of the easiest and oh-so-tasty reheat-able little omelets. You will need two silicon egg bite molds and a steamer rack with a handle. Quantities are inexact, as I eyeballed volumes. Ingredients 14 large eggs.Chopped veggies and/or meats,...

Grilled Garlic Scapes and Asparagus

Grilled Garlic Scapes and Asparagus

Garlic scapes are the young and tender flower stalks and buds of the garlic plant. They pop up in mid-to-late June, spiraling and coiling above the leaves. I wait to cut them until they have had a few days to grow to a nice size, but not too long or they will become...

Coyote’s Bitey Bite Hot Sauce is Now A Thing!

Coyote’s Bitey Bite Hot Sauce is Now A Thing!

The hot sauce is now a thing, and OMG it is delicious! In the photos: the jarred peppers on the day I started the ferment, the same after a round in the cuisinart, and in the bottle. I still have to make the labels. And the name: "Coyote's Bitey Bite Hot Sauce.",...

Summer Harvest Clam Chowder

Many of my recipes are inspired by the experience of "so the garden has just produced a ton of these veggies, now what do I make", coupled with I always end up with a ton of chard and garlic and I love clams. Ingredients4 cups corn cob stockcorn from two corn on the...