While I love granola, sometimes it’s too sweet for my liking. Don’t get me wrong, sweet granola has a place in my heart–and in my kitchen. But starting in January, after munching through more Christmas cookies than I care to admit, I just don’t want a sweet granola. Instead, I prefer a granola where the…
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{FSC Swappers} Swaptastic in 2013
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ― Rainer Maria Rilke We’re back for another year of our food-related podcasting, book clubbing, food swapping antics, fsc academy teaching and daily posts on cooking, baking, boozing, diy projecting, gardening, farming, food-related reflections and food politic news. Before we get our hands dirty w/ new projects & recipes, its time to get registered for our…
{recipe recap} Edible Gifts, Part 3
(you can click in the link above for all of our ‘fsc holiday posts from 2010-2012) This is this final recap of our 3-Part Edible Gift Recipe Recaps so that you can quickly reference the posts when you need them, because to be honest, these edible gift recipes are great year-round for any special gift-giving occasion. This is…
{recipe recap} Edible Gifts, Part 2
(you can click in the link above for all of our ‘fsc holiday posts from 2010-2012) This is PART TWO of our 3-Part Edible Gift Recipe Recaps so that you can quickly reference the posts when you need them, because to be honest, these edible gift recipes are great year-round for any special gift-giving occasion. We hope you…
{recipe recap} Edible Gifts, Part 1
We have completed two months of our yearly project: from scratch holidays: recipes & homemade edible gifts. (you can click in the link above for all of our ‘fsc holiday posts from 2010-2012) We hope you were inspired by the various ideas and recipes and that your friends & family members might get a yummy gift…
{edible gifts} Chocolate Coconut Popcorn
I really love popcorn. When I make a bowl of popcorn for my daughter to snack on, I find myself unable to stop eating it and usually consume an entire batch in one sitting. Most often I eat it sprinkled with nutritional yeast, but when given the opportunity to consume sweetened popcorn, I get excited….
{edible gift} Biscotti, Cookies for Adults
I am not a real fan of cookies. I mean sometimes I will eat one but I am usually disappointed and think they are not worth the calories. So when people bring Christmas cookies to my house, I let my husband, sons and granddaughter polish them off without regret. There is one kind of Christmas…
{from scratch holidays} Gingerbread Gift Tags
The holidays are upon us, and many people are in the midst of exchanging presents with friends and family. If you have kids on the list of those you are giving to, consider this fun {and delicious} way to decorate and label your gifts. Gingerbread Cookie Gift Tags Gingerbread cookies make a sturdy base in…
{Reflection on a Tragedy} Cooking for the Moment
This post is about the powerful impact that allowing yourself to be present in the moment can have on your mental health, and on your family (and how your kitchen can help). On Saturday morning I had caught myself, for the hundredth time in 24 hours, glancing at my iPhone looking for information about the…
{edible gift} Apple Jalapeno Beef Jerky
As Erika will tell you, so many sweet things are given out this time of year. Seems that she and I think a lot alike as we both wanted to write about our beef jerky recipes! (We do share a mutual love of bacon, so really this is no surprise.) I really do think jerky…
{edible gift} Cornmeal Rye Pancake Mix in a Jar
If anyone loved me as much as I love pancakes, they’d give me Twelve Days of Pancakes, starting with the perfect griddle and ending with the funnest flours. Luckily, I already have all I need in that department, but if you want to prove your love via pancakes, here are some hints. The perfect griddle…
{from scratch holidays} Building A Home Bar 101
Whether you are throwing a big holiday shin-dig, or you just want to keep a well-stocked cabinet of libations, it is good to know how to create a home bar to suit a variety of tastes and palates. You don’t need to spend tons of money or buy-out an entire liquor store to achieve this……
{edible gift} Candied Grapefruit Peels
A few months ago, I bought a satchel of organic grapefruits. When I tried one a day or two later, I realized they were unbearably sour (serves me right for buying them out of season). They sat on my shelf for a couple of weeks, until I finally decided it was time to stage an…
{edible gift} Crunchy Pumpkin Seed Brittle
Before our family was whacked with a bunch of food allergies to corn, peanuts and some tree nuts (among other things), I used to make a terrific almond brittle every holiday season for Christmas and Chanukah gifts to friends and family. It was an easy recipe for brittle, as it only required a microwave and…
{fsc podcast} Episode 9: Holiday Stories From Your Kitchens
With the holidays right around the corner, we thought we’d bring you a special storytelling episode of the From Scratch Club podcast. We talked with a few of our blog readers, podcast listeners, FSC Swappers and other friends and asked them to share holiday tales from their kitchen. The good, the bad & the ugly….
