Here’s a gorgeous photo of mouthwatering mozzarella and roasted peppers, submitted by photographer Mary Werhahn of Labor of Love Pix Photography.
This reminds of the wonderful party Mary hosted in her charming home one winter many years ago. I can tell by this picture that Mary still knows how to please a crowd with great food and attractive presentation. Yumm, look at those fleshy, succulent peppers! The creases in the thick slices of fresh cheese, so creamy white.
GOD I’m hungry. Thanks, Mary, for submitting!
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I exercise every day with my dogs, and yet my weight tends to yo-yo a bit. I attribute this to my weakness for dessert after nine.
When my pants go up a size and my hormones go all wonky (after age 35, these things start to happen more readily), I switch to the Mostly Bean Soup Diet. This involves cooking up a big vat of healthy bean and vegetable soup, portioning it out into small servings, freezing some, and eating the rest gradually over time.
Sometimes I do bean soup, brown rice and a green salad for lunch, with good veggies like green peppers, tomatoes, red cabbage and cucumbers. For dinner I’ll toss some fresh chard or kale into my bean soup during reheating and have that with a sprinkle of Parmesan and some fresh, chopped parsley. If I’m still hungry I’ll do a small piece of chicken and another vegetable on the side.
One weekend over the summer, I made three different kinds of soup – lentil, white bean, and beef barley (which is technically not a vegetarian soup but I just had never made it before and thought I’d try). My soup supply lasted for more than a month, I would say!
I’ve included a few of the bean soup recipes that I make regularly. They’re available in the vegetarian and soup sections of the CookingWithMyFriends.com website. I’ll keep adding more as I get the opportunity!
Red Bean and Vegetable Soup Recipe
Healthy White Bean Soup Recipe
Lentils with Brown Rice and Onions
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After spending nearly an entire summer without a pretty painted pitcher from which to pour my beverage of choice, I’m excited to say that my lovely new vessel has arrived from Laura’s Glass Art and is already in use.
Laura’s Glass Art is a small online business run by my college friend, the very talented Laura Knott. Laura is one of those rare individuals who actually listened when I said “Hey, why don’t you start an internet business?” and look at her now!
Additionally, Laura and her husband Tom manage an online blog which details the bounty of their backyard harvest and culinary adventures. Go see what they’re serving up today at http://laurasglassart.blogspot.com.
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Above: My friend Mary, sauteeing up a mess of broccoli for the gang on our last vacation together.
I still have a ways to go in terms of making improvements to the Cooking With My Friends website. Lots of recipes still need to be added. More copy on some of the pages would be great. And maybe things like cooking tips to add depth and substance to the reading! The site also needs some SEO fine tuning.
Oh, and let’s not forget – we need more great photos of the food, both mid-preparation and finished presentation.
That said, when I get all that accomplished, I’d love to start thinking about doing a printed cookbook! Maybe we can do something like take the best of the best recipes, find a low-cost printing company, and give away copies to everyone who contributes. Or maybe I should just publish ALL the recipes, this way no one will feel left out. I guess cost will be a factor!
Would you like to see your recipes in print, right on the bookshelf in your own kitchen? I think this could be a fun project. You can do your part by submitting one of your best recipes, with a little background story and photo.
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So there I was, sipping my tea, holed up at the computer on a chilly morning, when I could have sworn someone was baking bialies downstairs in the kitchen.
No one was making bialies. However, the imaginary aroma inspired me to design a makeshift bialy breakfast, using what I had around, which was:
Half a sweet onion
A day-old loaf of Panera baguette
Butter
Eggs
The result was a soft-boiled egg and bialy breakfast which proved a great, productive start to my day. And I must confess, the buttery-onion flavor turned out to be rather authentic, considering.
Read the recipe for Faux Breakfast Bialies here.
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I mentioned this briefly in another post, but I think it deserves to be featured on its own. My Facebook friend, Holly Buttura, recently posted some scanned pictures of a construction-paper cookbook that she and her little friends worked hard to create way back in the sixth grade!
I thought it was so great that I asked her if we could use the recipes on Cooking With My Friends Dot Com.
She was kind enough to donate the scanned images, still legible after all these years… which is where I got the recipe content from. Little did Holly’s classmates know that their painstaking handiwork would be preserved so carefully so that they they might one day re-emerge in all their glory, to behold on the World Wide Web.
Here’s Holly’s page, where you’ll find every recipe in the Sixth Grade Cookbook, complete with scanned originals!
Thanks so much, Holly. This was such a nice, sentimental addition to our collection of dessert recipes.
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First, I want to say thanks to the group of folks who have been kind enough to take a moment and jot down the ingredients and instructions to their best recipes and send them my way. I got a lot of great recipe contributions right off the bat – so I just want to say, keep it coming! The cooler autumn weather is sure to bring cravings for comfort food.
I do have a few people who went so far as to contribute multiple recipes – and for that I am eternally grateful! To honor them, I’ve created a recipe page for each person. Check out Angie Pederson’s recipes, Holly Buttura’s Sixth Grade Cookbook, and Maria G.’s mostly-Italian-but-some-Asian fare.
Thanks again. If you’d like to submit a recipe to Cooking With My Friends Dot Com, email info@cookingwithmyfriends.com
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There’s always that one garden vegetable mutation that defies explanation, and this year’s tomato specimen is it.
Did you grow a zany zucchini or quirky cuke this year? Email pictures of your odd looking produce to info@cookingwithmyfriends.com
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the inaugral post on the CookingWithMyFriends.com Foodblog.
I’m calling it the foodblog so it will click in people’s heads that they have to type “foodblog” after the domain name if they want to view the blog!
Well, my name is Dina and in my regular life I work as an online copywriter and marketing consultant. I (and my creative partners) specialize in designing websites like this one that provide quality information while also producing a source of revenue (see Google ads and search boxes located on pages of main website).
I hope you’ll visit here often and become one of our foodie regulars. We are always looking for new, quality recipes. Please do submit a recipe that you created from scratch or modified from another source, right here:
Submit a recipe to CookingWithMyFriends.com.
Please don’t fret over whether your recipe is “the right type” for our needs. Just submit it, and if there are any problems (which there likely won’t be), I’ll email and let you know. You can also attach a picture of your food – we want to see what we’ll be eating!
You’re also very welcome (and encouraged!) to post a link to your website at the bottom of your recipe. As someone who runs her own websites, I know the value of a good link when I come across one.
Thanks for reading, and Happy Fooding!
Dina
CookingWithMyFriends.com
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