9
Jun
Posted by ewegrant in Food. 1 Comment
I just added 6 new recipes to the What’s Cookin part of my blog. They are all Ethiopian recipes that were made in a cooking class I recently attended. The recipes are for:
Doro Tibs
Tikil Gomen (Cabbage and Carrots)
Mesir Wat
Kik (Yellow Lentils)
Tomato Salad
Fosolya (Green Beans with Carrots)
Ginger and Garlic Paste (this is used in almost all [...]
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27
May
Posted by ewegrant in Food, Gardening, Kids. Leave a Comment
This is a recipe that was given to me by a lovely woman that gardens in the same community garden as I do. I hope you enjoy it as I have, on my salads!
Lavendar colored chive vinegar
The flowers that are so pretty on top of the chive plants that so many [...]
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19
Apr
Posted by ewegrant in Adoption, Ethiopia, Food. Leave a Comment
A mitad is what injera is traditionally made on. I have been looking for one so that I can make injera at home for my family. I found one recently at an Ethiopian market but is was kind of expensive so I thought I would ask around to see if there were other grills you [...]
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13
Apr
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Passover Coke for those of you that don’t know is different then regular Coke. It is not make with high fructose corn syrup!! It is made with sucrose which is from beets or it is made with cane sugar. It is a real treat at Passover time even if you are not Jewish, which I [...]
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9
Mar
Posted by ewegrant in Food, Gluten Free Living. Leave a Comment
This Sunday after chruch Brian and I stopped by Rose’s to see what kinds of things they offered. At first I was a little stunned because It has been a long time since I have looked at so many yummy desserts and been able to pick almot anything I wanted. If you did not already [...]
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13
Feb
Posted by ewegrant in Food, Random. Leave a Comment
As many of you know by now I really like to cook, and due to my love of cooking I also have a love of cookbooks. I almost always have one or two cookbooks on my Amazon wishlist and a few in the back of my mind that I want to add.
Here are some [...]
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10
Feb
Posted by ewegrant in Food, Random. 1 Comment
What a difference, right! Now I actually know what I have, and it feels good! I probably spend an hour or so on this project and made a bit of a mess, although the kitchen smelled great. I purged spices that were old or that I never used, and stored my empty containers someplace other [...]
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6
Feb
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This is my spice cabinet and as you can see it is in need of serious help. Today while I was making vegetable stock a spice bottle actually fell into the stock pot full of stock. That was when I decided that I needed to do something that would assure that I would spend the time needed [...]
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29
Jan
Posted by ewegrant in Food, Gluten Free Living. Leave a Comment
These are made like rice krispy treats but with gluten free cereal and dairy free butter. Here is what I used;
I thought these were really good, not quite the same as your traditional rice krispy treat but it still hit the sweet spot.
Enjoy!
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27
Jan
Posted by ewegrant in Family, Food, Random. Leave a Comment
I belong to a yahoo group on adoption and recently a thread was started talking about home economics and how to feed your family on a budget in these harder times. It was inspiring to read what people do to save money and how they make feeding sometimes 14 people work. I wanted to post [...]
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