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….
Last week my daughter asked if she could make this Ramen Noodles with Miso Pesto recipe for dinner. Um, yes please! It was an amazing dish. She even went grocery shopping for the ingredients. As it turned out she could not find miso so she improvised by making this substitute with ingredients we had in…
We are wrapping up a balmy 50° winter weekend. It was like pea soup out there tonight. But of course we’ll be back to freezing in a few days. Sharing this soup that I make back when the weather was what we refer to in these parts as Chiberia. This soup will stick to your…
Turns out a I like peanuts, or more specifically peanut sauce. Quinoa, not so much, that I just tolerate. It is pain to make and besides it always gets stuck in my teeth. I made an exception in order to try this recipe and it paid off, delicious and no quinoa in my teeth. I…
Any time I am looking to make soup I look no further than The Daily Soup Cookbook. I’ve made a good number of the recipes in the nearly twenty years that I have had the book. It is actually in sad shape, the spine is pretty messed up. This recipe caught my eye this weekend…
Let’s see if I remember how to do this. 😉 I’ve made a few recipes from the Plenty cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi. This cookbook is gorgeous, with a plush cover and amazing photos, I just love to read through it. Ottolenghi makes it easy to succeed with simply written recipes, and every one I have…
I celebrated the New Year in Michigan this year. It started snowing in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve and didn’t stop anytime before I left. White knuckle drive home, though shout out to Indiana, of the three states I drove through they were the only one with plowed roads. I arrived home to more…
We had a very low-key weekend, it was soooo nice. I even found a few hours to park myself on the couch under a nice warm blanket and read my book uninterrupted. It has been months since I finished a book, such a rare treat. I was also able to spend some time in the…
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…
I went to Whole Foods last weekend in search of duck and came home with a grocery bag of random food stuff. I guess I was hungry. One of the things I came home with were these red lentils… No specific plan for them, they just caught my eye when I was getting some white…