As I’ve mentioned many times, we’ve been thinking a lot about food in the Jackson household this year. The hardest part for me isn’t finding new recipes or buying new ingredients (although that is intimidating at first too) but rather figuring out new systems and habits to sustain the new recipes. We’ve come along way…
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Making Whole Wheat Spinach Pasta
This weekend we made pasta making a family affair. A few weeks ago Andrew made a batch for dinner. It was our first experience with homemade pasta and we are all convinced there is no going back to the store bought option (except, of course if we don’t have time to make anything else). We…
Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Perfection: Recipe Update
Today I made three perfect loaves of sourdough bread. They were not too wet and not too dry. They easily shaped into loaves. They rose a little extra in the oven. They were crunchy on the outside and soft in the inside and tasted perfect. I have finally gotten the hang of making great loaves…
Sourdough for Absolute Beginners
At the beginning of the year, my knowledge of sourdough bread was limited to what we learned on vacation in July 2012: you could buy it in San Francisco, the natural yeast there gives it a distinct flavor, and it is delicious. When I started learning about dealing with gut issues, one option is to…
Our How of Food
We have been thinking a lot about the food we eat and how it effects us. This journey in nutrition can be convoluted at times (a lot of the time) because so many people have different research, interpretation of research, personal experiences with food, and their own ideas of what works and what doesn’t. The…
Cooking in the Kitchen
Fall is upon us, and with it my desire to bake has sky rocketed. Pretty much anything with cinnamon and nutmeg is high on my list to consume and therefore, make. On the first day of cold (it went from 90 degrees to 50 degrees over night with one amazing thunderstorm) we made oatmeal pumpkin muffins….
Kansas City Adventures: Chip’s Chocolate Factory
Chip’s Chocolate Factory is a small chocolate store at the Crown Center that has chocolate making demonstrations. How could we pass up an opportunity to watch the experts make fudge and try a little too? What appears to be a braided loaf of bread on the center marble table is actually whipped peanut butter fudge, a process…
Freezer Meals Made Easy – Part 2
As promised in part one, here are a few of our favorite meals/snacks that we have had success freezing and eating after: Muffins. My first success in the freezer department was taught to me by my incredible mother. Essentially, you make whatever muffin batter you like and then fill up a silicon muffin pan. Cover…
Freezer Meals Made Easy – Part 1
Soon after getting married, I dreamed of the day when my freezer would be perfectly stocked with meals that I could pull out at a moments notice and be ready to consume with little work. About a year into marriage I had this great idea that by pinning every freezer meal pin on pinterest that…
The Elves Went on Vacation
Sometimes I wake up in the morning, look around, and realize that the wonderful elves who clean our little apartment must have taken a few vacation days. Darn. Today was one of those days. Andrew was taking off for campus around 10am, so I figured that would be a good time to get started digging ourselves…