Have you ever been playing around in the kitchen and have what I call a “happy accident”? You toss a few ingredients together and come up with something that just totally knocks your socks off? Well, I’ve been spending some time in the kitchen playing around with my 6 favorite spices and just had one…
Archives for April 2013
My Favorite Spices – Chai Quick Bread
Don’t you just love the yummy spices that come together to make that great cup of chai tea? They not only taste good but they smell divine! Well, that got me to thinking. What if you took a simple quick bread recipe and added a chai spice blend. Sound good? Well, here’s how it turned…
My Favorite Spices – Make Your Own Taco Seasoning
What are you making for dinner this evening? Do you have a menu board and have everything planned out? Is this perhaps your “wild card” dinner of the week? What if your plan for dinner was something simple, like sandwiches, and your kids all beg for tacos instead. You look in your refrigerator and you…
My Favorite Spices- Chocolate Chipotle Brownies
Do your kids ever give you a present that is a little out of the ordinary? A few Christmas’ ago, I received this chocolate bar from my older son. (source) Now, at first blush, you may be thinking that this is a crazy combination…chili peppers with dark chocolate! Just take a bite and you will…
Let Me Introduce You to #MySpiceSage
Where do you purchase your spices? Are they prepackaged in tins or bottles at a grocery store? Do you stop by the bulk section of a natural foods store? Do you go to a spice store? As you know, 6 of my favorite spices are: Cinnamon, Cardamom, Chipotle Pepper, Cumin, Garlic, and Oregano. I decided…
My Favorite Spices – Cumin Potatoes
Okay, let’s be honest. When you go to a restaurant for the first time, do you pour over the menu, reading every item to choose the very best entree? Then, after you’ve been there a couple of times, you stop reading the menu and starting having “the usual?” What do you do, then, when the…
My Favorite Spices – White Chili
Spring has finally sprung here in Ohio and I am so psyched. In fact, this morning it was in the 50s when I woke up and walked the dogs….a far cry from yesterday’s early morning temp of 31 degrees F! All I kept thinking this morning was, “what a beautiful day today is going to…
My Favorite Spices – Orange Cardamom Muffins
Okay, how many of you have heard of cardamom? How many of you have some in your pantry but can’t recall why it’s there? How many of you are saying, “Carda…Huh?” If you’ve had chai, you’ve tasted cardamom…it’s the spice that gives that yummy chai latte it’s distinctive flavor. Cardamom has a sweet-spicy taste and…
My Favorite Spices – Snickerdoodle Chex Mix
Have you ever been to the grocery store and stumbled across a product that intrigues you so you toss it in your grocery cart? Then, when you’re putting your groceries away, you think, “Hmmmm. Now what will I do with this?” This happened to me recently. I was at Trader Joe’s and pick up this…
My Favorite Spices – Spicy Hummus Recipe 2
It’s April 4th and when I woke up this morning is was a cold 23 Degrees F! That’s the bad news. The good news is the predicted high will be 53 Degrees F. So, although spring is off to a sluggish start, it is trying to get here. So, today I thought I’d cheer spring…