Minimalism. Mindfulness. Munchies.
Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950’s era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Have you noticed how many meals are being made in muffin tins these days? You need...
My husband just LOVES the creamy lemon and caper pasta at our local Sweet Tomatoes restaurant, so I decided to try to make it for him at home. I found a recipe from Souplantation (owned by the same company as Sweet Tomatoes), but I couldn’t bring myself to make it as heavy as the...
The name of this website, Laughing Lemon Pie, comes from a cooking mishap that has become the stuff of legend in my family. Many years ago, my grandmother made a lemon pie for the family, but something must have gone slightly awry in the kitchen, because as the pie was served, everyone noticed immediately...
Oh, sweet spring! It’s come early in Colorado, with unseasonably warm temperatures and no snow this March—which is usually our snowiest month. But I was ready for a little green to start poking through the brown. I am ready to be done with winter for this year, ready for things to be growing and...
We really didn’t know what to expect with this recipe. I mean, the ingredients are innocuous enough, but with a name like “omelette puff…” Turns out, these are pretty tasty, if a little unusual. They have a nice, fluffy, slightly spongey texture. The other nice thing is that they lend themselves almost infinitely to different toppings; pretty much...
I’ll admit, when I got my Grandmother’s collection of more than 180 recipes from her 1950s-era television show, Today’s Kitchen, I was a little daunted. I knew I wanted to cook my way through it, but where to start? Should I start with recipe No. 1 and just work my way through numerically? Or...
We made it! Twelve weeks of DIY foodie Christmas gifts. And to wrap it all up, I present my mother’s apricot nut quick bread recipe. Every year, my mom makes loaf upon loaf of this stuff to give to coworkers, neighbors and friends—all of whom look forward to it every year! This year,...
This is it! The home stretch. We’ve only one more week (and a couple of days) until Christmas. Are you still making your foodie gifts? Mine are nearly done, with the exception of next week’s recipe, which doesn’t keep for a long time, so has to be made at the last minute. These little...
Oh, people. I wish I could tell you that I had a cute and festive name for this treat. Like, “Crunchy Caramel Crackers” or “Holiday Cracker Caramel Crunch.” But I’m the sort of gal that likes to call a duck a duck. So this is called Caramel Cracker Crack. (Actually, the original name was...
Saturday’s food swap with Mile High Swappers was so much fun; we were hosted by Savory Spice Shop in downtown Boulder and it was the perfect atmosphere for foodie fun. People were brave about coming out in the frigid, snowy weather—and braving the Parade of Lights crowd! For the first time, the swap had a...