Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
See those sad little hockey pucks? Those are my second attempt at Sass’ cornmeal biscuits using the modified recipe I found on her website. Alas, they weren’t much better than my first try.
Flat as the biscuits were, they were pretty tasty slathered with [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
I first heard about quinoa a couple of years ago. At the time, it was really hard to find and I soon gave up looking for it. These, days, however, it’s easily found in the natural foods section of most grocery stores. Quinoa [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
The picture I had in my head of this dish was nothing like it turned out to be. I was imagining a creamy, warm, white liquid in which black grains of rice floated. What I got was black. Black liquid, black rice, etc. [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.

This was one of the first recipes I marked out of this book. Besides the novelty of making my own popcorn (Wait! Popcorn doesn’t grow in microwave bags?), I love caramel popcorn. My family has a caramel popcorn recipe that we’ve been [...]

Another detour from the grains cookbook. Deal with it.
Part of my morning routine involves browsing food blogs and copying recipes that look really good. The fact that I will have to live to be 300 years old to try every recipe that I’ve copied doesn’t deter me in the least.
One of those blogs is written [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
Look at those muffin liners! They are called tulip muffin papers, and I love them. I need to open my bakery just so I can bake everything in them. Sadly, those muffin liners were the best part of this recipe.
The muffins weren’t bad. [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
Over the past year, Bryan and I have become flank steak aficionados. We tend to eat it at least several times a month. It takes well to marinades or rubs, cooks up in a flash and is delicious cooked on the grill, the stovetop [...]

Currently cooking from Whole Grains, Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
I only have few food dislikes. I hate liver (and am too old to be told it is steak, mom!) and I hate oatmeal. I dislike liver because of the taste. My dislike of oatmeal, however, all comes down to texture. I don’t care [...]

Obviously, this isn’t from the grains cookbook, but if you try these nuts, I don’t think you’ll mind the diversion. In fact, you might just get down on your knees and thank me. What can I say? I simply can’t stop baking sweet things (or eating, them, either)!
If I ever get motivated to hand out [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass.
I’ll never make a good southern gal. I can’t make biscuits to save my life, which is a shame, because they are easy, delicious and make a great side to just about every meal. And with some jam or jelly, they can double [...]