Thursday, March 21, 2013

Leftover Turkey (or Chicken) Fricassee


It is springtime.  The weather is warming, the flowers are blooming, the trees are budding, the robbins are hopping around the yard, and all that good stuff.  And I still have a pile of recipes left to post from fall and winter.  Here is one for Turkey Fricassee.



Although I love turkey and look forward to roasting one for the holidays every year, I never did buy one for the holidays this year

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes


Lately Anna has been doing almost nothing but eating and sleeping.  Every couple of hours she is ravenous, she's tired by 8pm every night, and my normal 5:30am early-riser been sleeping in until 7am.  Uh-oh, here comes a growth spurt!  Yesterday I made these blueberry pancakes and she took down four of them.  Both the girls practically inhaled them with exclamations of "yu-u-um!" and "these are

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Chocolate Avocado Mousse






The April issue of Eating Well has a series of recipes featuring avocado.  Their recipe for Chocolate Avocado Shake caught my eye.   The girls love the Chocolate Avocado Pudding I make, and a shake sounded very appealing.  So I made it with a few small changes.  Surprisingly, it turned out less like than a shake and more like a mousse, which I love!  I'm happy enough with this to not ever

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies


There is not enough time in a week. There is not enough time in a day.  There is not enough time in an hour.  There is just not enough time.  It's hard to live with no sense of time,  with so much ambition that invariably gets shackled by the clock.  I can get lost for hours inside my head by the memory of a smile.  Or by the chorus of a favorite song.  It really makes time management difficult.