Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
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…
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…
August. It is August already. There are so many things on my summer list of things to do that still need checking off! Time to start fitting it all in, up first the farmer’s market. I have not been to a farmer’s market all summer. This summer we did not even sign up for a…
Challenge, meatless steak au poivre… I think the natural choice would be portobello mushrooms, they are a great stand in for beef. My mind went to cauliflower, my love of cauliflower has been well established, and I did love those cauliflower steaks. Hot out of the oven. The cast iron skillet is a rock star…
Happy Tuesday, slowly getting to Friday. So I got a new toy for Christmas… I guess I was good this year. Good enough anyway! Love the color, it is perfect in our kitchen. I especially love the weight of the cast iron, and the coating. I broke it in almost immediately for Biz’s simply crusty…
Were the hell did June go? We have been so busy it seems to have passed me by. Weekends have been jam packed, our next free weekend is Labor Day. Our plans always involve fun, but it still wears me down. Busy weekends also mean less cooking and eating at home. This makes it hard…