Cooking from Scratch
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been getting huge carrots in our CSA shares. Each carrot is often over a half pound! That’s one big carrot. You’d think that they’re woody, tough, and kind of flavorless, but, instead, even at this size, they’re sweet and tender. But, we still have the question of what do you do with lots of huge carrots? For a weekend treat, we went with carrot cake.
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Yesterday when we were putting together dinner — of Mushroom Pea Tartlets with a side of carrot sticks, if you’re asking — we were thinking we’d like a dessert. We had planned to make Buttermilk Sweet Potato Pie, but, like the best laid plans this one went awry all because of bread. See, we made bread dough yesterday morning, which meant we had leftover starter, and that means we’ll make sourdough pancakes, which used up the buttermilk, so we had to make more, but that won’t be done for 24 hours, which means no Buttermilk Sweet Potato Pie last night.
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Volcanoes, lava, meteorites, moon mud, and tasty – this cake has it all!
This is a great cake when you’re thinking that you’d like to have a dessert, but you want it to be quick. It takes just a few minutes to put together, it’s fun, and your kids can help, too.
Last night when we’d finished dinner, we wanted just that little something for an after- dinner treat, so we immediately thought of this cake. Once you’ve made it, it’ll be your go-to cake for snacking, too. We got the original recipe from The Joy of Chocolate, by Judith Olney, and have only changed up the meteorites. Continue reading “Craters of the Moon Cake”
Ireland is one of our favorite places to visit. It is amazingly green and beautiful, and pictures don’t really do it justice. The first time we visited Ireland together, we rented a cottage in the west just outside of the small town of Corofin. One day we stopped and talked with the caretaker, Paddy, who explained that he was busy applying weed killer to the grass near the edge of the driveway. Yep, without weedkiller, that grass would have taken over the driveway in a few months. At the time, we knew people who just wished they could even get their grass to grow without bald spots, and be mostly green. Ah, the luck of the Irish. Continue reading “Irish Tea Brack”