Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
It is well established that I am team apple > pumpkin come fall. And this site has my love of cauliflower thoroughly documented. I’ve cut way back on meat in favor of whole food plant based eating. I am also working to cut back on salt. Mrs. Dash is my go-to to make this possible….
I am about 90% done cooking my way through Nothing Fancy, but have a new cookbook that is keeping me in the kitchen, Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten. I mean who doesn’t crave comfort food enduring this pandemic and election cycle. The book is full of approachable recipes, new takes on old classics, and…
My love of cauliflower is well documented. And while I normally prefer it roasted, this salad is a great way to enjoy it in the summer when you dread cranking up the oven. Marinated Cauliflower Salad Author: Jacky Hackett Prep time: 10 mins Total time: 10 mins Serves: 8 Ingredients 1 head of cauliflower…
It was all apples and pumpkins this past weekend. Fall must be close, it is my favorite time of year! Pumpkin waffles with cinnamon sugar butter, pumpkin beer, grilled cheese and apple, pumpkin cupcakes with Nutella buttercream and salted butterscotch, warm caramel apple cider, farmers market donuts. It was out first trip the farmers market…
Minus the weekend, I missed half of February at work. Dare I say I was happy to return. Lunch at Union Sushi (two thumbs up) made my return even more enjoyable. Jury duty went late, later than I usually get home from work, so the husband was on dinner duty. Good thing because I was…
I am glad I invested some time finding some new low carb recipes, all of them have been a success with the whole family. Next up, Chinese take-out. We don’t ordered dinner out too often but when we do it is either pizza or Chinese. The problem is both of these are easy to over…
The theme of week two on South Beach seems to be comfort food in the form of a casserole. I’ll get right to this one… Crappy picture are also a theme apparently, I blame the lack of carbs. This one is the real deal, and could practically go unnoticed that it is not potato. I…
I am on South Beach. Not the actual South Beach, I wish. No, I am ON South Beach, as in the diet. I don’t like the word diet; it immediately makes me want to binge on horrid unhealthy comfort food. And perhaps maybe I in fact did do go that route the day before I…
When one of my favorite sources for recipes offered a chance to review a copy of their new cookbook that shares the name of the blog, Meatless Meals for Meat Eaters by Miriam Barton, I jumped at the chance. The Lentil tacos from the site are a fixture in our taco Tuesday line up and…
Steak again! Totally stole this cauliflower steak idea from Lynn at the Actor’s Diet. I thought it was a genius way to serve cauliflower. I added in my own genius using it as a tool to eat massive amounts of Romesco Sauce. Seriously I can not get enough of Romesco sauce. Or of roasted cauliflower. The…