By Amanda Rose | Citrus
We’ve been enjoying our opportunity to take pictures in our area, with incredible green hills and wild flowers. On one of our ventures, we grabbed some shots of these clementine trees and thought you’d find them interesting. Clementines are the small seedless and easy-peel tangerines that have become very popular in the last few years. […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Nuts and Seeds
For a couple of decades we have loved our lemon poppy seed muffins. It is a great combination of flavors. When I stumbled across a recipe for lemon poppy seed scones I was intrigued. In all my baking life I had never tried scones. In fact, the only place I have ever encountered one is […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Nuts and Seeds
The first time I tasted tahini sauce it was being served as a topping on felafel. People stood in an hour-long line at an art fair to place their order. Even then, you prayed the guy wouldn’t run out of food before you got to the front of the line. This was Bakersfield, CA, circa […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Nuts and Seeds
Dukkah is one of those seed/nut/spice blends from North Africa that can turn most any food into a celebration. It may have originated in Egypt and I understand that dukkah began as a pack-and-carry food for camel drivers. After a day or two in the desert, the flatbread is hard and tasteless. Dip it in […]
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By Amanda Rose | Dairy
Sometimes you just crave a treat. I sit in Starbucks and here just about everybody ordering a flavored $5 drink as I drink a basic coffee or tea but on a snow day at home when we needed a treat we started talking about flavored coffees and those little “creamers” you find in quick stops […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Nuts and Seeds
It’s been years since I’ve made granola, years since I’ve eaten it. Lauren’s post on granola making caught my eye because we had a gallon of oats in the pantry. When I got rained out of a morning of gardening, I knew this was the time, if the time was ever to be. Two questions […]
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