Cookin' & Craftin'

I know, I know... long time, no cook.  But it's not that I haven't been cooking, it's just that what I have been cooking hasn...

One half batch of my favorite challah dough ... two loaves of challah stuffed with various delicious ingredients... two explosions in my ov...

While in the U.S., I picked up a copy of the new cookbook from Deb Perelman (the blogger behind my go-to recipe source, Smitten Kitchen )...

Got leftover cranberry sauce?  If so, make these cranberry crumble bars.  Super easy and quite a big hit at the Thanksgiving party we w...

Recently I bought a big bag of apples from Malang (a city located at the foot of Mt. Bromo in East Java) and was looking for something to...

While in Sydney, we stayed with Adam's very generous family for most of the week.  Tim and I tried to earn our keep by bringing some ta...

I have been on a raisin kick recently for some unknown reason (maybe I need iron ?), and, after my bread-making success a few weeks ago , I...

Ok, so after my last beef rendang attempt and failure , I felt I needed to redeem myself.  If at first you don't succeed, yada yada... ...

For some reason I had the most intense craving for rice pudding last week... I rifled through my cabinets and the internets and decided tha...

Using this recipe as a basis, I stuffed some delicata squashes with a ground beef and bulgur wheat mixture seasoned with fresh parsley, cin...

Yum- this squash and cousous salad with a citrusy dressing is really good . I used delicata squash because that's what I had on hand, ...

Two year old UPS turkey. . . applejuice steam-roasted w/apple cinnamon pan sauce, "homemade" stuffing and buttered summer squash f...