Cooking with Amy has me excited and ready to tackle this Tori no Mizutaki Japanese stew. Skip the delivery pizza this weekend and do it Japanese style with this chicken stew recipe. Enjoy. Ingredients: 1 pd chicken, cubed 1 lb tofu, drained & cubed 1 bundle watercress 1 Chinese cabbage, chopped 2 cups shirataki (locate [...]
We’re Cooking with Amy Today
Cooking with Amy is a great food escape, you come out refreshed, full of culinary joy and a happier person for the visit. I felt the same as I was looking at her recent post on Japanese cuisine. Amy revisited the koryori style restaurant Kappa this week, here she is now: “When I went to [...]
It’s Saturday Morning Buttermilk Pancake Recipe Time
From Indonesia to Egypt, we have traveled with the pancake. Now let’s take it into our own kitchens. Enjoy this knock-your-socks-off buttermilk pancake recipe. Ingredients: 3 cups all-purpose flour 4 tablespoons white sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 3 cups buttermilk 1/2 cup whole milk 3 eggs 1/2 [...]
Around the World with Pancakes
Saturday morning is just around the corner and so is my favorite breakfast dish- pancakes. Covered with honey, butter, peanut butter, syrup or preserves, pancakes are a wonderful way to ring in the weekend cheer. Pancakes differ worldwide, so I thought we’d go on a pancake adventure. In the US, pancakes are usually thick, round, flat [...]
24th Birthday Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Get out your favorite cream cheese frosting mix and come along with me on this zucchini culinary journey. Make sure you have no allergies to cucurbita pepo, or vegetable marrow, and get those ovens preheated, it’s cake time! Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup oil 1 1/2 cups white sugar 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour [...]
Zucchini is a Fruit?!!!!
Well, well. It looks like someone is hiding in the briar patch. Zucchini has been hiding from me, living the faux life of a vegetable. But, I have found it out, zucchini after all is a fruit!! Who knew? Maybe just about everyone but me…. I did some R & D on zucchini today, as this [...]
I’d Rather be in Cesky Krumlov Ovocne Knedliky / Sweet Dumplings Recipe
OK, now that we know a little more than we started with about the wonderful possibilities of dumplings, let’s move on to the good part. Enjoy this wonderful I’d Rather be in Cesky Krumlov Ococne Knedliky / Sweet Dumplings recipe straight from the Czech Republic. Ingredients: 1 cup whole milk 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup [...]
Let’s Talk Dumplings
From beautiful Cesky Krumlov to Oktoberfest Munich, to the Southern US states to London pubs, dumplings make the world and the people who eat them delighted and full of joy. Dumplings are classified as tasty balls made from dough (mind out of the gutter, please) which come in a variety of dishes both sweet and savory and [...]
Guacamole History & the Cilantro is Wonderful Guacamole Recipe
Hmmm, with all this talk of guacamole I had to go out and get a veggie guac wrap! It was delicious, but now on to the history & a wonderful recipe for this spectacular dip. Guacamole is a sauce or dip, depending on who you’re talking to. It is made primarily with avocados and various other ingredients [...]
Avocados & Guacamole, The Best Things in Life are Green
The best things in life are green: avocados, guacamole, Kermit the frog, my husband’s eyes have some green flecks, grass, plants, and many veggies. How can one live a life without green, or avocados? I just don’t know. On the menu today: avocados, guacamole & their histories. We’ll start first with the fruit behind the [...]
