Tasty Biscuit

Month: September 2010

  • Peach jam, part 2

    Oh. My. Word. This created the peach-tastiness peach jam that we have done so far. The cinnamon one was quite, quite nice, but this one holds the record for tasty.

  • Penne with Pine Nuts and Zucchini

    This is based off of a recipe from my father, who adapted it from a Mario Batali recipe.

  • Jacked up Banana bread

    A simple banana bread recipe, with a twist. This is adapted from a Smitten Kitchen recipe. The original is a one-bowl kind of operation. Since I have a mixer and am lazy, I prefer to do it in the mixer and be a little more complex.

  • Bread and Butter Pickles

    This is a work-in-progress recipe. My first attempt at this was a disaster: too much salt. I think regular, granulated, table salt is twice as heavy. It tasted salty enough to make me a pirate. The following is what I did for the 3rd iteration.

  • Peach Jam (Low sugar, no Sure-Jell)

    Holy moley. This is amazing stuff. Too bad the yield was so small.Very tasty stuff. Peaches have a huge amount of pectin in their skins, so they should stay on. When they were cooked down, though, the skins mostly disappeared. Tonight, we had some extra pectin from an orange marmalade project from a while ago.…

  • Pickled Beets and Turnips

    We are going canning-crazy in our apartment. Maybe it’s our manifestation of the nesting desire before the baby comes? This recipe comes from a Happy Girl Kitchen workshop. We were surprised to find out that we didn’t have to peel the beets when we did them.