I love soups that are hearty and full of taste. I can eat split pea soup all year, not just during the cold weather. Soups seem very hygge and are great comfort food. I especially love Split Pea Soup. This recipe is easy to adapt to vegetarian or vegan and I will make those notes for you. The rustic no-knead whole grain French bread is delicious and full of flavor.
Happy New Year’s. I love New Year’s. Time to spend with family and honestly to evaluate how I’ve done in my life the past year and how I can be a better person in the new year. Some may say that resolutions just depress one’s self but I think this is a great time of year for self-reflection and pondering and to set reachable goals.
New Year’s Eve is always an exciting time of the year. I always like to have good foods, watch movies, spend it with family. I enjoy crepes. My daughter makes delicious crepes. What exactly is a crepe you ask? It is a very thin pancake derived from the Latin work crispus which means curled. I found this recipe that used Cassava flour. I decided to try it so I would have another gluten free recipe in my toolbox for guests and family who are gluten free. This recipe is delicious. I will use this recipe often as the flavors blend, the strawberry jam with the added power pack of chia seeds is by far one of the best jams I’ve ever made.
I love warm winter drinks. I love tea. I can drink hot herbal tea any time of the year. When fall starts, different drinks take priority. A few months ago I was in Alaska and the cooler temperatures were ahead of Utah. I enjoyed a good hot cup of cocoa and I knew the fall season would quickly be upon us. Upon returning to Utah, I knew that I wanted to blog about some of my favorite fall and holiday drinks. I find that I will fill my thermos when I am on the road or enjoy a mug curled up with a good book or a holiday movie with cocoa or steamer. These drinks have the perfect aroma that fills the house with the perfect holiday smells and creates the feeling of Christmas. This is a perfect week with the colder weather to enjoy these flavors. All of these drinks can be created to be vegan.
Mincemeat is a word that we hear at Christmastime. What exactly is mincemeat? Mincemeat is a combination of apples, raisins, fruits, and citrus peel, blended with sugar and spices to make a delicious filling for baking. This filling is usually made into mincemeat pie, but tarts, shortbread, cookies, breads, and more are additional options to enjoy this delicious filling.
What is plum pudding anyway? It’s somewhat of a misnomer because it doesn’t actually have plums in it and it isn’t the spoonable custardy pudding we know in the modern U.S. So let’s travel back in time to 17th century England. The word “plum” just meant any dried fruit and the word “pudding” referred to a dessert. So in modern American English, I suppose we’d call it “dried fruit dessert”. But that doesn’t sound as appetizing as plum pudding, does it? Back then, puddings were desserts that were tied up in a cloth and boiled in a pot of water. This type of dessert was more common among the lower class because many of them didn’t have ovens, so this made for a nice dessert that only required a fire and a pot for cooking. It wasn’t until the 1830s that plum pudding as we know it today came around. It was then that it also took on the name Christmas Pudding.
Fruitcake brings either a smile or a frown to your face. For generations, there have been jokes about fruitcake and a fruitcake always seems to be the gift that keeps giving at company gift exchanges. When I was a kid, I will admit, fruitcake wasn’t my favorite. I always ate one piece to be polite. When I got older, I discovered a pecan fruitcake from east Texas that everyone in the office coveted.
Good old fruitcake. Or bad old fruitcake. As we all know, fruitcake is one of those things that you either like or you hate, as Allison stated in her fruitcake bread post. I’m one of those who loves fruitcake. At least, I love THIS fruitcake. My mom and I make it every year near the end of November. She lets hers sit to “ripen” for a few weeks, while my loaves are lucky if they see the next day. Haha!
Gingerbread is a favorite for the holidays, whether it’s gingerbread cookies or cake. Ever wonder where it came from?
This post will be written by both of us Kitchen Kneads bloggers, Dawn and Allison, each answering some questions and sharing a recipe for gingerbread cookies and gingerbread cake. We hope you have fun reading! We definitely found the history surrounding gingerbread so much more fascinating than we thought it would be and we hope you do too!
After you’re done reading, we hope you’ll go have fun baking each variety and sharing it with your family this Christmas season.
After a whole month of a pie a day, wow, that’s a lot of pie. I am doing 2 last posts. One post will be my favorite pie and the other will be what I learned about pie making to share with you. A couple of weeks ago, I had a pie delivered to me. A chocolate banana cream pie covered in delicious home-made whipped cream. This pie was amazing. I found I could eat it for 3 meals a day if I let myself. I did share a piece with a neighbor but I learned something so valuable not just about banana chocolate cream pie but something much more. I have heard several times in life we “break bread together” and yes, a hot loaf of bread out of the oven is divine and smothered with honey, jam, or butter…yum! Pie, I have decided when shared is true friendship, caring, and love.
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