It’s the simple things in life that make everyday special: spring flowers, hot coffee, a letter from a friend, discovering a new corner of your city. We each have our own lists, mine change from day to day. For this …
Month: March 2012
local food week continues!
This is a big week for agriculture in the Pittsburgh area, so apologies for all the local food talk if you’re not from the ‘burgh. Starting next week, regular CookingScraps programming will return (whatever that is). Hopefully there will be …
maple syrup + a giveaway!
Alright, are you ready for this? I used to be square in the fake maple syrup camp. I knew it was mostly flavored corn syrup, but that is what I thought maple syrup should taste like. Real maple syrup didn’t …
make breadcrumbs, make your grandmama proud!
Bread, in it’s most basic form, is a combination of flour, water, yeast, and salt. More “elaborate” doughs still only have a few additions: a pinch of salt, a bit of oil. So it would stand to reason that breadcrumbs …
mac’n’cauliflower
I have always been of the opinion that you shouldn’t hide vegetables, you should celebrate them! I can’t help it, before I was born I was destined to be a life-long veggie lover. It was a combination of the amount …
cauliflower kale soup
It’s not quite spring here, but it’s getting close. Yesterday I saw some yellow flowers peeking up beside the sidewalk. This weekend; however, it snowed. The temperature has swung 30 degrees in three days. This month so far is staying …