Cooking | Stumbling into Abundance

Easy Challah 1

Oct

2011

Challah, a traditional Jewish egg-bread, is one of my favorite easy breads to make. It is great for using in home-made stuffing/dressing and makes AWESOME French toast. I first started baking challah about 6 years ago, when I didn’t know where to find it in Richmond. (It was actually some of the first home-baked bread ...

Chocolate Granola Bars 1

Mar

2010

A couple weeks ago I ran across this excellent recipe on Wit & Whistle for homemade granola bars. Of course, being the culinary tinkerer that I am, I couldn’t simply leave well enough alone and adapted it to my tastes (CHOCOLATE!) and what I had on hand. While I was at it I also made ...

White Chicken Chili 4

Aug

2009

Let me start off by saying that I’ve been making a lot of soup the past several months. Since January I’ve made soup almost once a week, with a few weeks off around our vacation this summer. Part of the reason for this is that every Monday night my wife Becky and I host a ...

Since we last crossed paths

May

2009

It’s a strange feeling to stumble back across this blog after not having posted since the beginning of last December. Part revisiting an old friend, part realizing how much life can change so quickly without even realizing it. I don’t want this to come across as an “I’m just putting something on my blog because ...

Squash Patties 3

Jul

2008

It’s that time of year again … time to figure out what to do with all the yellow squash and zucchini my garden is prodigiously producing! Just two days ago I harvested 3 large zucchini and a dozen yellow crooknecks. Last year was our first year growing squash, and so I had a great time ...