Neuroscientist + Curious Mind + Passionate Maker
Here’s a practical and easy technique for preserving green beans from your garden. This entire post is going to be one long pro-tip on how to pressure can your green beans, so you can enjoy them throughout the year. If you go back and look at my first post about preserving the harvest (see here),... Continue Reading →
Ha ha I’m going to gross you out! Do you know how maraschino cherries are actually made? Take a light-colored sweet cherry, like the Rainier cherry, and soak them in a sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride mixture to bleach the fruit. Sulfur dioxide if inhaled or ingested will cause breathing difficulty and eventually with enough... Continue Reading →
Since making this recipe back in April, I finally opened a jar for the first time this week in June. It was so fantastic and delicious. I've had mango chutneys that were super sweet. I've had mango chutneys that were super spicy and others too salty. This chutney was the perfect balance of sweet, sour,... Continue Reading →
As I sit here writing this post, I’m enjoying a slice of the rhubarb crisp. This is probably some of the best rhubarb I’ve ever eaten. I found my local supplier by typing “rhubarb” into the local newspaper classified ad section. As a technology junky, I never thought about local households posting their garden excesses... Continue Reading →
The race is on. Can I keep up with the summer fruits and vegetables? I’m having a hard time prioritizing anything and I’m overwhelmed with everything I want to do this summer. Luckily, picking sweet cherries and canning them only took a day. I was worried it was going to turn into a long ordeal.... Continue Reading →
Most morning I enjoy nothing more than toast and jam, but it's nice to have a treat now and again. I love baking ginger cream scones, because the recipe is so easy and the scones just melt in your mouth. I suggest serving your scones with some fruit jam, clotted cream, or lemon curd, and you've... Continue Reading →
If you post anything about bunnies, or bun-buns, on the internet, you’ll be an instant success. So in honor of Bunday today (as all Sundays are Bundays), I am posting a homemade buns recipe, no not THAT kind of bun, but hamburger buns. I’ve made so many types of yeasted dough at this point that... Continue Reading →
This slow roasted lamb shoulder recipe again uses part of our half lamb we received from Lau Family Farms. The shoulders we received were conveniently cut in half so we didn’t have to spend two weeks trying to finish off all the meat. Also, don’t be afraid if there’s quite a bit of fat on your cut.... Continue Reading →
And now for something completely different…besides loving to cook and being a scientist at heart, my other passion in life is music. Peaches ALWAYS remind me of the 90s alternative rock band from Seattle, The Presidents of the United States of America. Their song, Peaches, was released in 1996 and it was nominated for a... Continue Reading →
I view meat a lot like I view wine. Say what? It all has to do with the French concept of, “Terroir”. The Terroir consists of characteristics, sometimes tangible, sometimes not, of the geography, geology, and climate of a place. Terroir is what makes some wines taste fantastic and other wines taste like Thunderbird! Anything... Continue Reading →
I can’t think of Quiche and not think of the “quickie” joke. Some things in life never stop being funny. When I was much younger, my best friend and I would watch certain parts of movies over and over until we nearly peed our pants laughing. Like that scene in the Little Mermaid when Sebastian runs up... Continue Reading →
I hate those days when I eat the last of whatever pie or dessert. It means I either have to bake something new or heaven forbid succumb to buying a container of Ginger-O’s, delicious cream filled ginger cookies. Ginger-O’s are my one weakness in life. If I have a cup or more of raisins sitting... Continue Reading →
