The Scenic Route There’s a lot of writing yet to be done by the Minimalist Cook, and more ebooks, but I’m moving the operation over to the Mothership, The Minimalist Woman. The mailing li...
Put Your Feet Up and Read Awhile! Let’s welcome 2011 with some link love to recent articles and posts which deal with food and cooking. I hope you find them an enjoyable change of pace! Civil E...
Seconds, Anyone? Still Warm From the Oven... Lots of us are trying to moderate our carbohydrate intake, particularly flour and sugar. Oatmeal/porridge is highly recommended for breakfast, but my prob...
Coming Your Way in a Blaze of Glory My husband Steve is an Englishman, and at Christmastime I like to treat him to some of his favorites like Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Stilton cheese with a ...
Festive and Yummy and Easy Pecan Toffee Bars Pecan Toffee Bars are one of the easiest and tastiest and most portable of cookie/dessert type treats. If you have a food processor, this recipe takes no ...
Three-Thirty, and Almost Time for Tea It’s been a few months since my major kitchen uncluttering project, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on how well it’s worked o...
Hummus and Olives, Immediately Before Being Devoured Hummus is one of the most marvelous things in the world and easy to make. The biggest downside is the cost or even the availability of sesame tahi...
Now What? Just about every refrigerator has them: narrow-necked bottles of ketchup, mustard, mayo, etc. with too much left in them to justify throwing away, but next to impossible to shake out. IR...
A Stack of Golden Cornbread Muffins I love cornbread with autumn food–the flavor and texture seems to complement rich flavors, especially in soups and stews. Cornbread can be made in a baking d...
Lovely, Quick, Easy, and Yummy This recipe first appeared in my cooking ebook, Minimalist Cooking–27 Practical Recipes. I make it all the time, and it is so easy it is suitable for a second des...
Onions and Breadcrumbs Top a Green Bean Casserole The green bean casserole seems to make nearly every Thanksgiving dinner menu I’ve ever seen, except perhaps the one my mom makes. She makes her...
Pumpkin Pie in a Tart-Type Crust Face it–pies are not that hard, but they have a way of going all wrong when you are under stress or distracted or the ingredients for the filling are unpredicta...
Beautiful Cranberries Here’s a simple, easy, cranberry sauce that’s not only good on Turkey Day, but keeps for a couple of weeks in the fridge, so you can enjoy the leftovers on waffles, ...
The Goal is Within Reach Roasting a turkey is like roasting anything else: simple. The key is allowing enough time for it to roast to the proper done temperature, which is 165F in the breast meat and...
A-Well-a Brrrrd Brrrrd Brrrrd, Well the Brrrrd is the Word Here’s what you need to have on hand to make everything on the menu in my previous post, A Simple One-Day Thanksgiving Dinner Timeline...
I Yam What I Yam Let me begin by saying Minimalism and the traditional Thanksgiving dinner are mutually exclusive. It’s probably the American cook’s single most stressful meal of the year...
Cinnamon Crisps We recently had an invitation to an evening gathering (Hi Karin!!!) where the food theme was Mexican, and I wanted to bring something along with the usual bottle of wine. I was thinki...
Roasted Peppers and Angel Hair Pasta It’s the end of a nice warm October and time to think about what comes next: cold-weather food, holiday food, and food that comforts without packing on the ...
Stalk of Brussels Sprouts Most of us have only seen Brussels sprouts as the pile of mini-cabbages in the produce section of the grocery store, or in little plastic-wrapped boxes, or in freezer bags. ...
It was one of those days when the weather was absolutely perfect, the fall colors at their best. While I was reluctantly doing laundry in the basement my eye landed on a classic picnic basket that on...
Bounty From the Market Guest Post by Dusti Arab of Minimalist Adventures “We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are....
orange Information overload has often been a big source of stress for me, especially when it comes to my diet. Over the years I’ve read that butter is bad, preservatives are bad, eggs are bad, ...
Its a Great Deal! If you like The Minimalist Cook and other blogs about minimalism, simplifying, uncluttering, living debt-free, and in general freeing yourself from overconsumption, then you’l...
An Abundance of Gourds We enjoy the chance to buy local food, so we walked down to the farmer’s market this morning, which is just a couple of blocks from our house. It’s that time of yea...
Banana Nut Bread This is the time of year when I get a craving for homemade banana bread. I am a baker at heart, having had a sweet tooth all of my life, one that was indulged by all the other bakers...
I live for the apples of autumn, they are one of the constants of my life, the taste of fresh apples and of fresh apples baked in a pie. Apple pie is one of the safest memories I have. I do not think...
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Frittata from the skillet section of the recipe ebook This is a guest post by my husband/photographer Steve Johnson, which first appeared on his site at go2graphics.com A quick progress report about ...
This easy carrot cake recipe is heavy, moist, and loaded with good things,as you can see in the picture above. It keeps well in the refrigerator for a week (if it lasts that long). Grating the carrot...
There’s been a lot of stuff in the news about the Great Egg Recall thanks to a salmonella outbreak, but there are good eggs out there and there are eggs in recipes everywhere. For all you cooks...
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