I’m writing this as my husband prepares to watch the Stanley Cup finals, game 7 between the Canucks and the Bruins. This is a very special day for him, a day he’s been waiting for since he was a boy. Oh yeah, it also happens to be our 9th wedding anniversary. Needless to say, we’ll be spending…
Category: Cooking with Whine
Mexican Pizza
I love pizza, because it gives me a chance to be creative and imprecise. You don’t need to measure everything perfectly, and it’s okay if you don’t have all the right ingredients. Basically you just need the dough, and something tasty to put on top of it. For pizza toppings, I often use whatever I have in my…
“Baked” Oatmeal in a Mug
I recently posted about Chocolate Cake in a Mug, where I showed you how to bake a single-serving chocolate cake in only a few minutes. That got me to thinking, would this work for baked oatmeal too? I adore baked oatmeal, but most mornings I don’t have the time to bake it. So I tried applying the principles of…
Black Bean and Yam Enchiladas
Black beans. Yams. Whenever I see these two ingredients together in a recipe I swoon. I love them both on their own, but when they’re together it’s a beautiful thing. I usually put black beans in my enchiladas, that’s nothing new (see Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas and Black Bean and Sausage Enchilada Casserole), but I…
Homemade Graham Crackers
Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than making something at home that you would normally buy in a package, especially when it tastes just as good, if not better. The great thing about making food from scratch is that you can make it so much healthier. These graham crackers have no refined sugar, very little oil,…
Baked Orange Chicken
I bookmarked a recipe for Annie’s Orange Chicken because the photo looked so delicious and I love orange and chicken together. I only glanced at the recipe briefly so didn’t notice until I was about to try making it that you have to fry the chicken in oil. I didn’t want to do that because a) it makes it less healthy,…
Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies
One recent Saturday afternoon it was pouring rain outside and we were looking for something to do. Cole suggested we make peanut butter cookies. So Cole and I were all set to make The Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies Ever until we opened the jar of peanut butter and found that it was almost empty. Now what? I…
Mexican Cornbread Strata
The thing about cornbread is it doesn’t keep very well. It really tastes best when you eat it warm out of the oven, and then nobody in my house seems to want anything to do with it after that. So there it sat in my fridge, the once loved cornbread that was now sadly unwanted….
Mom’s Cornbread
When I left home, my mom gave me a recipe box filled with tried and true family recipes. Each recipe that she thoughtfully wrote out by hand tells a story for me. I remember the cold winter evenings when we were warmed by hearty minestrone soup and cheese biscuits, and after dinner when we’d spread butter…
Hummus
Simple, delicious hummus. As the weather begins to get warmer, I love sitting out on the patio in the sunshine while watching the kids run and play in our backyard. This hummus with veggies and pita is the perfect summer snack to set out on the patio table so we can all graze on it…
Food and Whine 