It’s asparagus season! Celebrate local and fresh ingredients with this guilt-free, awesome soup! While this recipe is vegan, you could certainly add a little cream for that extra something special Lemon and Thyme Asparagus Soup ¼ cup olive oil 2 ½ pounds fresh asparagus, woody ends removed and chopped into 1” pieces 4 Celery stalks, … Continue reading
Homemade croissants made with fresh puff pastry is the finest thing you can bake. The down-side is the dough takes about 3 days to make. However, once the dough is made, it keeps in the freezer for a very long time. So if you know you want fresh croissants on Easter Sunday morning, you can … Continue reading
A lot of our most favorite recipes at CPM come from having been too broke or too unwilling to go back to the store for that one more thing. So there have been plenty of times we’ve had to make what we need out of what we already have on hand. Call it our own … Continue reading
It’s insanity! I’ve taken a perfectly good cheesecake, scooped out the middle and made it into these fun and yummy little pops. Cheesecake Pops One cheesecake of your choosing 20 oz chocolate of your choice, cut into small pieces (chocolate chips are fine too) A few graham crackers, crushed into desired size Lolipop sticks … Continue reading
I only have one word for this soup. “Crack”. Yep, it’s like crack. Everyone loves it. I even competed at the Solano County Fair with it and won first place! Simple to make and best served cold, this soup is a great summertime dish that utilizes fresh, local ingredients. And, talk about guilt-free eating. It’s … Continue reading
For those of you who liked my 3, 6, 9 mac-n-cheese, here is another 3,6,9 recipe for you. A pizza dough so perfect that it’ll blow your mind. You will need a kitchen scale for this recipe. 3, 6, 9 Pizza Dough 15 oz of flour, divided into 9 oz and 6 oz portions 3 … Continue reading
For those of you math nuts out there, you will appreciate this recipe. I first conceived of it while watching an Ancient Aliens episode on Nikola Tesla. Apparently he was fanatical about the numbers 3, 6 and 9, as well as just about everything else. Tesla said “If you only knew the magnificence of the … Continue reading
The inspiration for this sauce comes from a dessert The Slanted Door in San Francisco used to sell. It was a house made tapioca pudding, drizzled in a dark sauce and topped with diced fruit. It was divine. I was sad when they quit selling the dessert so I set out to make the sauce … Continue reading
If you love rice pudding and you love coconut, this dish is for you. The basics of this dish are fairly simple – make sushi rice and, instead of coating the rice in sushi su, coat it in a coconut cream/sugar mixture. This dish takes just over one hour to make and is worth every … Continue reading
The regular readers of this blog know that I will take just about any left over, throw a fried egg on top of it and call it breakfast “madame”. This Fast Food Friday I have a really special dish to remake into “madame” – Amelia’s pot roast with mashed potatoes and caramelized onion gravy. SOOOOO good! As … Continue reading
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