Welcome to a new focus for ‘Cook at home’. As some of you may have read, I’ve been struggling a little recently with the ‘pressure’ of having to cook many things for the US National Food Day Challenge – things that I don’t necessarily want to make, or eat, but have done so … and […]
A challenging break
It’s been a tough decision for me, but this week I have decided to take a break from my US National Food Day Challenge. This is for a number of reasons, but the main one is that I found myself totally consumed with what I needed to make each week, and making lots of food […]
Lessons from no-refined sugar January
January is almost over. And I’ve gone through the whole month (and the week after Christmas Day) without eating any refined sugar (but I have had maple syrup), meat or dairy. It’s only been this past week that I’ve started having some animal products (eggs and honey in baked goods). Still no dairy or meat […]
Whole foods, plant based
‘Whole foods, plant based, no refined sugar’ – that’s my goal for January this year. Mainly the no refined sugar bit. This came after the massive sugar ‘hangover’ I experienced on the day after Christmas Day, where I spent the majority of that morning in bed with a major headache. I thought … something has […]
Christmas baking
‘Tis the season to be merry … and bake … and give out homemade goodies to the neighbors. I wasn’t going to do this, but one of the guys at work told me his wife was spending the day today baking cookies and was expecting me to do a similar thing. And then I thought, […]
Re-booting for health
So this is going to be more of a self-serving blog post, not much about baking/cooking but a lot about eating. And sorry, no pictures for this one. For those of you who know me personally (and you know who you are!), you will know that I’ve always struggled with digestive issues. I’m not going […]
Leftover Halloween Candy
Our first Halloween in the US meant our first stocking up of the Halloween candy bowl. And we had a reasonable amount of leftover candy just sitting in the pantry. So, what to do with it (apart from eat it all at once, which did cross my mind!). So, I separated out the candy that […]
Pumpkin theme – part 3
Definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Fortunately, this weekend of baking with pumpkin was much more successful than my previous 2 attempts (see here and here). After Halloween had passed and I saw all these really yummy looking pumpkin chocolate chip cookies in the stores […]
Marshmallows and s’mores
Living in the US has some benefits – I was walking in our local grocery store this weekend and found some gluten-free graham crackers … on special! So I bought two boxes and thought I could FINALLY try some s’mores. And use them in a crust for a pumpkin pie later this week (my friend […]
Pumpkin theme … take 2
After my disastrous attempt at trying to bake with pumpkin puree previously (see here) I thought I’d try again. After all, how will I find that ultimate pumpkin cookie recipe if I don’t have a few failures along the way. I guess it’s kind of like when I was on a quest for my […]