One of our guests for Thanksgiving brought leg of lamb – how wonderful! With all the food we made, I had both turkey and lamb leftovers. I ended up freezing about 3 cups-worth of lamb pieces.I had initially planned on using leftover turkey and making turkey biryani, but I decided the lamb would be an…
Month: December 2014
Sweet Potato Pecan Bread
I am still enjoying cooking with the sweet potatoes from our fall harvest. There are still a few nice-sized ones left; so I grabbed a couple to make some bread.The sweet potato bread turned out great. I often find pumpkin bread to be overly moist and sweet. This was perfect, the texture was great and…
Cammy’s Cookies
My little top chef has returned to the kitchen. He has been making breakfasts and helping me with dinners. But his preference now is to bake. For MY birthday, he gave me a cookie cookbook for us to use together. Of course we are using the recipes as guides and adapting as we see fit….
Mushroom Noodle Latkes
Here is an amazing Hanukkah recipe from Chabad.org. As you can tell, I love making latkes, and enjoy making latkes out of non-traditional foods, like apple or spinach & feta. So, I just had to try noodle-based latkes. And, one or our daughters was going to be home and she loves mushrooms, so this was…
Apple Latkes
Latkes aren’t just for lunch and dinner, we found a fun new way to start our day with latkes – Apple Latkes for breakfast! These latkes by Nigella Lawson are so good that you are going to want them at other times of the year. Then you can call them apple fritters or apple pancakes….
Golden Latkes with Turmeric
Happy Hanukkah!! Just when you think there can be no other ways to make potato latkes, along comes turmeric. Turmeric is a member of the ginger family with an orange-yellow color when dried and ground. I love turmeric and the color it imparts on food; these latkes are flavorful and beautifully golden. I adapted this…
Puffed Oven Pancake with Brown Sugar-Banana Sauce
If there aren’t enough other treats around, how about a breakfast treat? I always thought the baked pancakes would be a lot of work, but this was actually a lot less work for me than making batches of regular pancakes. And everyone was so impressed! Although my waistline won’t like it, this may become a…
Tis the Season for Recycling
I shared this tip with my clients at the University of Pennsylvania, but I think it is worth sharing again here… Sustainability Tip #7 – Tis the Season for Recycling With the holiday season upon us, households will be getting a lot of new things. This means that there will be a lot of old…
Leftover Turkey Mole Tacos in the Slow Cooker
I am posting this now because we froze some of our Thanksgiving leftover turkey for use on days just like this. I have not felt like cooking since Thanksgiving – yes, almost 2 weeks! So, yesterday, I pulled two 2-cup bags of turkey out of the freezer into the fridge to defrost. At lunchtime today,…
Fig Graham Bread
If I have any addictions, it is to figs and dates. It flips back and forth as to which I prefer; basically depending on whether I have dates from Israel or Iran around. When I run out of those, I have better access to quality figs than dates, so I switch to obsessing about figs….
Andrea's Garden Cooking 