Category: Snack

  • Grilled Cornbread

    To save our kitchen from unecessary heat, we took advantage of our meat grilling to also grill some skillet cornbread.  My parents gave me some locally ground cornmeal a month or so ago and it was perfect for this!  Was resulted was a slightly smokey, spongy, and quite tastey cornbread.  The key?  Making sure the…

  • Fruit & Chocolate Chip Muffins

    Donna Hay is our favorite cookbook chef.  What originally attracted us to her work was the gorgeous full-page food pictures in her cookbooks.  After browsing through one such book in our local bookstore, we decided we wanted to eat them all, and now we have three of her books.  What we like (and sometimes don’t like) is that some…

  • The First Rule of Bake Club

    Yes, this is an actual thing.  I’m down.  It means I can focus some of my food energies for good and less for evil.  Bake one thing a month to share recipes and compete for prizes?  I can handle that. 

  • Banana Chocolate Milkshake

    This is a milkshake without added sugar.  Yeah, yeah, bananas are lots of sugar, but the key here is no added sugar. Behold: Make one (or two) servings of banana chocolate ice cream with desired add-ins. Transfer to blender (or continue in food processor) and add small amounts of milk between blending. Continue until you…

  • Faux Ciabatta Bread

    Real ciabatta bread is delicious; and complicated to make (or so it seems).  This one seemed way easier.  And it was!  It was supposed to use semolina flour, which I didn’t have, so I used cornmeal instead.  It gives it a slightly different taste than true ciabatta bread, but still is pretty tasty. Ingredients: 3…