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Thanksgiving Already? Seriously?

Posted in Dining Out in Utah, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My husband has been in China for a long week, and we spent the previous month traveling or being traveled to. While I academically knew it was upon us, I hadn’t quite assimilated the fact that Thanksgiving is Thursday. Husband returns Wednesday evening and I got to thinking … what do I really want to [...]

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Rustic Italian Bread

Posted in bread on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Hi – Jen here again. My family has a favorite bread recipe – super easy and simple. It’s got short rising times, and uses really basic ingredients (just flour, water, yeast and salt). You don’t have to have any fancy machines to make it – just be willing to knead for a bit (although I [...]

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Caramel Apples

Posted in Apples, Caramel Apples, dessert on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This recipe is originally from www.epicurious.com but we substituted honey instead of corn syrup. Yum!

1 1-pound box dark brown sugar
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
2/3 cup honey
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon robust-flavored (dark) molasses
1/4 teaspoon salt

12 chopsticks or popsicle sticks
12 medium Granny Smith apples
Assorted decorations (such [...]

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Today’s lesson from The Alchemist

Posted in cookies on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hi – I’m Amanda’s older sister, Jennifer, and she’s asked me to add my two-cents to this site. I’m all about transformation – and enjoying good food.
Today I’m sharing a link to an excellent recipe – alas, there are no freshly grown vegetables here. But it’s well worth the experience.
I just cooked this recipe for [...]

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Recipe Review – Pumpkin Blender Waffles

Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My sister recommended these when I was visiting a few weeks ago. She got the recipe for these seasonal waffles from a blog she follows: Every Day Food Storage, which just got a new REAL website. None of this silly blog-ness anymore.
The niche for this website is on how to use basic food storage [...]

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Rainy day baking

Posted in blueberry, bread, cookies, gingersnaps, muffins, whole wheat bread on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes, rainy days just call for a baking day, and this one especially since my legs still ache from Saturday’s half marathon and I didn’t really want to go anywhere. Since I knew it would be dreary all day, I prepped last night and got the dry ingredients ready for muffins while making a batch [...]

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Do-Over and my NEW LOVE!

Posted in breakfast, dessert, yogurt on November 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »

As a kid, we’d call do over if our first serve on four-square wasn’t good. The first try at this whole food blog thing wasn’t terribly successful, so we’re going to try again. We spent the last few months putting up food from our garden and will very likely starve if faced with a long [...]

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As a child, family appropriate fun was Good Clean Fun. It is only appropriate that family appropriate food should be Good Clean Food. So here it is. We are moms. Moms that made that a hard decision to stay home. For different reasons (maybe we like the challenge or the health benefits, or maybe we're just plain weird), we've all decided to take care of our families using the best and most real foods we can find. We grow it, we grind it, we can it, we bake it, and we even sometimes eat it. We focus the good food we make for babies big and little. We also might talk about the challenges that arise from the choices we have made. We can do better for less with little work, and it is absolutely worth it.
Amanda

A mom of one crazy toddler boy that chose to stay home rather than practice law. Married to an environmental engineer, and with a horticulture degree of my own, we love everything natural, and so I try to feed my family that way too. I honestly believe there are very few limits to what we can accomplish if we are willing to put in the work (that's the really hard part).
Erika

A stay-at-home-mom of two boys whose meals in newlywed days consisted of macaroni and cheese, totinos, scrambled eggs and instant oatmeal. Yikes! After 8 years of practice and obsessive recipe collecting, I am now a relatively decent, health-conscious, somewhat experimental cook who likes to keep things as simple as possible.
The Alchemist

The Alchemist: one who manipulates basic elements in hopes of gaining gold (family, garden and self). I’m a SAHM to DD6 and DS2 with a wonderful cooking husband. We live in CA, just outside of SF, so gardening can be year-round. In one of my past lives (pre-kids), I was a massage therapist, which taught me about the healthy connection between the self, the body and the surrounding world. Now I’m trying to find that connection again. 01/09.
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