18 Hour Kitchen

I've been rather uninspired in the cooking department lately. I literally sat outside for 25 minutes today thinking of what to make fo...

Tomatoes are here! My dad has been bringing home tomatoes from my grandma's backyard tomato plants, which have been growing spectacula...

It's been a frustrating year of growing vegetables in my backyard. First, the weather has been quite A typical of a normal Minnesota s...

I'm going crazy with CSA produce, now that peak season is here. Last week we had a beautiful head of napa cabbage in our boxes and I t...

This is a super simple potato salad that is dairy and egg free (no mayo). We had our first batch of red potatoes in our CSA box last week,...

I don't know what gave me the hankering for stuffed peppers, but I got one yesterday. I have never actually made stuffed peppers myself...

This is such a yummy meal... so creamy and satisfying it just makes you feel comforted as you eat it. I left out meat altogether, opting fo...

I've been dreaming about food lately. Kinda like Carolyn over at Dreaming About Food ... (you must check out her blog... I perused it fo...

This salad is such a hit in my house. My four year old just loves it. He's eating his veggies and mama can't complain. My husband sa...

I hate to say it, but it's technically still winter here in the frozen tundra. Thankfully, it's not quite that frozen anymore. Th...

We are all just holding on, hanging on, counting down the end of winter. Spring is coming... we tell ourselves. And I am just too much the ...

I'm on a bit of a sweet potato kick these days, as I mentioned in my post yesterday . I've been developing hordes of recipes with th...

I just love sweet potatoes. No two ways about it. Lately I have been buying them pound after pound,  keeping them stocked on my counter, and...

Here I go again with Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious . This recipe was inspired by her Chocolate Pudding recipe, which is cooke...

My last trip to the grocery store, I forced myself to step outside of my vegetable comfort zone and put at least two vegetables in my cart t...

I am just too frugal of a gal to let good food go to waste (on the other hand I have no problem letting food that isn't real food, say ...

I came up with this recipe based off a recipe from one of my favorite food bloggers- Heidi of 101cookbooks.com . Her version uses red cabba...

Mmm Mmm, I'm loving it. "You want fries with 'dat?" I ask my family. Not McDonald's fries, of course, but my own versi...

I am so thrilled about this recipe. It's not new to me, not new to the blogsphere, but it is new to someone in my house... hubby. He has...

When I get on a roll, I guess I get on a roll. It's greens time again, and this recipe is yet another with this unsurpassed food group: ...