Spring is here in the Northern hemisphere, and with it comes our eagerly-anticipated harvest of fresh spring asparagus. There’s nothing like crunching into a delectable, perfectly cooked spear of field-grown asparagus; the slimy, slightly grey-tinged jarred kind simply can’t hold a candle to it. Below are twelve carefully-curated recipes from some of the powerhouses of…
Category: Meal Style
Recipe Post: Crispy Cinnamon Apple Chips
While I usually view apples as an autumn harvest fruit, their longevity when they’re stored properly over the winter months means that they’re usually an available crop for ages. Hence why I have received literally DOZENS in my winter/spring organics boxes this past year, and why my kitchen is currently somewhat awash in Fuji, Royal…
Recipe Post: Chicken Parmigiana/Parmesan
Chicken Parmigiana is a well-known and popular dish that any Italian eatery likely has on their menu. It’s one of those recipes that look difficult to make, but is actually surprisingly easy; there are a few extra steps to it, granted, but once you get over that hurdle, you can still have this on your…
Recipe Post: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
The title of this recipe is quite a mouthful on the best of days, but if you take the GF and DF out of the name it’s still a yummy quickbread that also makes delicious and substantial muffins. This recipe can also easily be made using dairy and regular flour and oats, but it’s nice…
Recipe Post: Puff Pastry Garlic Cheddar Spirals
As I mentioned in a post last week, I do not make my own puff pastry. There’s really no need these days unless you’re doing it as some sort of flex, or you’re staging for a job in a bakery (and that would be super-mean of the potential employer to do to you). There’s some…
Recipe Post: Mincemeat Muffins
There are few more traditionally historical British Christmastime recipes as a mincemeat (“mince”) pie or tart; but outside of the British Isles, they’re not as well-known. In a nutshell, traditional mincemeat pie was a savoury pastry, and did contain actual meat; the pies were originally quite a good size, filled with a mixture of finely…
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