Wednesday, February 8, 2012
This blog turned two over a week ago without so much as a happy birthday wish from me let alone a post to commemorate the fact, which says a lot about the sorry state of things over here. One year ago I had recently left my job as an editor and was working in my first kitchen, and it was great. Yes it was a bit draining, but I still managed to spend a good chunk of my free time cooking and writing, and I still enjoyed it more than anything else. Three kitchen jobs later, I’m feeling a little less excited. I still cook nearly every day, but it’s of a completely different type. I used to spend hours (hours! how did I have the time?) paging through my cookbooks and the Internet, bookmarking recipes I needed to make, making lists of when I was going to make them and post about them, going to the grocery store with long-ass lists. Now, I look in my cabinets and fridge, take stock of what’s there, and throw something together. I go to the grocery store and buy what looks good. If they’re out of something I wanted, I don’t freak out and go to another grocery store; I just buy a substitute or forget it altogether. I hardly ever follow recipes anymore, preferring instead to either use my head and wing it, or to make a variation or improvement upon a dish I’ve made before. Cooking this way is much less stressful. It also feels much less blogworthy.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
I am super in love with these. You can eat one for breakfast. You can have one for a snack. You can warm one up (or not) for dessert and top it with a scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream. You can pick one up and eat it like a slice of pizza (over a plate, please, to catch the crumbs, unless you have a dog, and even then) or you can plate a slice and eat it with a fork. And you can feel just fine about eating so many because they’re made with whole-grain rye flour, oats, and fruitalicious jam! Any jam you want!
Friday, January 13, 2012
So I know I just posted a kale salad recipe, but you can never have too much raw kale in your diet, kiddies.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The other day I was feeling nostalgic about the things I used to make at Bluebird, these muffins most of all.
