One of my little sisters (she of Mapo Dofu fame) is pregnant for the first time. She has been obsessed -and when I say obsessed, I mean O.B.s.e.s.s.e.d. (get the pregnancy joke?)- with chocolate malts. Chocolate malted shakes, particularly, but chocolate malted anything pretty much. She texted me that she was making a chocolate malt cake (this cake, as a matter of fact) this afternoon. I suggested she use homemade malt powder. She asked what I meant. I explained how I make malted milk powder for my kids and have for years. Her response? "Why have you not blogged this?" I had no answer. We went on to talk bras, back pain, Julia View Post
Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon | Quick and Easy Main Dish
I have a thing for fish. I love it. In fact, I could eat it most nights out of the week. I'm not super picky, I like just about every variety. Not all my kiddos share my adoration of fish dinners, however. Well, unless they're battered, deep fried, and served with *gag* ketchup, that is. Don't get me wrong, I love fried fish, too, but that's not an every night kind of dinner. What you see above, though, is just that. That is a simple Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon coated in a lovely homemade Smoked Cajun Spice Blend (recipe included below), fried in a little oil in a cast-iron skillet, and served on a bed of rice with some equally lovely View Post
Toffee Brownie Crackle {Crispy Brownie Wafer Cookies}
There are a lot of foods I like. Duh, right? No seriously, work with me here. The list is extensive. In fact, I'd say I like more food than I don't like... I don't naturally have a sweet tooth. It's pretty easy to go overboard on my sweetness quotient. I prefer foods a little further on the savoury or bitter spectrum. There is one GIANT, HUGE, ENORMO exception, though. Brownies. Uhmuhgush, people. I'm a brownie maniac. I eat them all. I eat fudgy brownies, cakey brownies, blondies (I know, maybe that's stretching the category a bit), BROWNIES. All of them. I like brownies made with pounds of butter and sugar, fake-you-out brownies made View Post
Twix Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
I only have so much virtue in my body. I try to eat well and feed my family healthy foods, and I do a pretty good job of it most of the time. But every so often, I spend all my good behaviour on things like parenting, being honest and moral, and tidying up. At the end of my virtuous rope, I fall straight into recipes like the one I'm sharing today. You know those recipes you have to drop everything and make right away when you hear or read about them for the first time? This is one of them. I'll get it right out of the way now and tell you this is full of fat, sugar, flour, cream, candy, chocolate, and all sorts of other things View Post
Chinese Barbecue Pork (Char Siu), Homemade Five Spice
Are you familiar with Chinese Barbecue Pork {Char Siu}; that flavourful, luscious, sticky-sweet, bright-red pork served in House Special Soup, fried rice, and on skewers at Chinese restaurants? I have a serious fixation on the stuff. I can't get enough of it. The problem with satisfying my need for it is twofold: I don't live near a Chinese restaurant. No. Really... It's fifteen miles round trip to the nearest one and the nearest one is not worth driving fifteen miles round trip. I'm not super fond of food dyes. They kind of weird me out, honestly... That's why you don't see a lot of things calling for food colouring here on Foodie with View Post
Slow-Roasted Rosemary Garlic Almonds
My friend Lisette is a good person to befriend. She's funny. She's charming. She has exquisite taste and a generous laugh. And wherever she goes, she has snacks. Good snacks. She has bags of granola bars, homemade energy bars and her signature Slow Roasted Rosemary Garlic Roasted Almonds. My children hover around Mrs. Heckathorn on field trips with their best "I'm starving!" faces on in the hopes that she'll break out her stash of almonds and offer to share. Is it because I don't bring food? Or they don't like what I have? No. It's just that a.) they love Mrs. Heckathorn and b.) they love those nuts. Big time. Why? Lisette slow View Post
Brown Sugar Strawberries and Cream Tartlets
This is the story of a dessert that shouldn't have turned out. It should've been an abject failure, but instead, it turned into a giant kitchen redemption tale and an awfully wonderful Mother's Day treat. It is the tale of Brown Sugar Strawberries and Cream Tartlets. It started out with a beautiful recipe. One posted many moons ago by Evil Chef Mom. It had turned out perfectly for her and many other accomplished home cooks, so why shouldn't it have turned out? Because I failed to follow instructions. Big time. It all started at the grocery store... While shopping, I grabbed a flat of strawberries and sallied forth further View Post
Cincinnati Chili
This post was originally published on May 3, 2011. Wowza! It got a little facelift in the form of new photos and a lovely printable recipe. Dig in, friends! Rain, mixed precipitation, and more rain... This has been our weather pattern for the past three weeks. Add colder than normal temperatures and you get an idea of the dreary outdoor conditions around here. Blech. Today, the boys and I hit the end of our proverbial rope and decided we wouldn't take this rain lying down either literally -because puddles- or figuratively- because MEH. We combated the four billionth consecutive torrential rainy day by... Wait for View Post
Everything Soft Pretzels
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! Did you know February is National Snack Food Month? Its true. And did you know that I am the (self-proclaimed) Queen of Snacks? It is in veritas.* *Wanton use of Latin proves either my royalty or the fact that I'm a homeschooling mom. I think this calls for a serious application of my snack food bonafides. (MORE LATIN!) There is no better way to kick off National Snack Food Month than with the King of All Snack Food (no relation): SOFT PRETZELS! Clearly, I'm excited here. I'm so excited I'm all capsy. Or should I say, I'M ALL CAPSY!? And exclamation marky?!?!! View Post
Slow-Cooker Red Beans and Rice and Creole Seasoning | Make Ahead Mondays
This classic from the archives is just what the doctor ordered to beat the snow storms that have been pounding the North East. Plug in the slow-cooker, pop your ingredients in the pot, and wait for the beautiful aroma to fill the room. Strangely, this recipe is equally at home in the hot summer months because it doesn't heat up the kitchen courtesy of it's slow-cooker preparation. I'm going to go ahead and say right now that I have absolutely zero idea how authentically "Cajun" today's recipe is, having never actually been to the great state of Louisana. All I know is that there are few things more satisfying than a big bowl of cooked View Post
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