Peckish Sister's Profile

From: Central, FL USA

Joined: December 11th, 2010

About me: I have always liked to cook, particularly breads, fruits, vegetables, vegetarian, poultry and lamb dishes. After marriage we cooked together progressively more difficult dishes with him doing the meat, grilling and frying, and I did the "dough" and the same type of things I had before. After children we started cooking more simply. After discovering the cause of my frequent migraines was an evolving long list of chemicals and odd ingredients, I began getting back to cooking from basic ingredients, and found I could be well again. I also try to cooking from what I can get in season at the ever present fruit and vegetable stands.

Favorite cookbook: America's Test Kitchen / Cooks Illustrated Books

Manchester Stew from Skinny Instant Pot & Slow Cooker Cookbook

I switched up the vegetables and canned beans to reflect what I had on hand. It was my very first use of the Insta pot and I was skeptical of the 3 minute cooking time since I had increased the amounts... read more >

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Super Natural Every Day: Well-loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen

By Heidi Swanson
Ten Speed Press - 2011

This sounded like a new way to use up those leftover overripe bananas. I needed 4 large to get the needed amount of bananas. I am glad that she mentioned how wet the dough would be, so I soldiered on and formed 24 wet mounds. The addition of popcorn sound fun, but the popped kernals "melted" in the wet dough and were indistinguishable in the finished product. Unfortunately that left a chewy exterior kernal part which was rather unpleasant. The cookies were wet tasting the first day, but the next day the dampness went into the ingredients and even the roasted peanuts were limp without any crunch. Iw ill not make this again, but perhaps it would turn out better in a drier climate.

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This formed a dense, moist muffin. The first few bites, the millet gave a nice crunch to the texture of the muffin. Later on I got the impression that I often do eating millet that I am sitting too close to the bird cage again. The next time I make these muffins, I will follow Bert Greene’s advice that every recipe with millet is improved by toasting the millet in a cast iron skillet for about 5 minutes first. The muffin cups overflowed with filling a 12 place muffin tin. But I was using a stick free pan and they still turned out alright.

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These are indeed amazing, I like to try and keep a bag of them in the freezer. I prefer the walnuts over the almonds, but loved the suggestion of the dried fruit. Dates seem a little rich for hot Florida, but I love dried cherries. I threw in some dark chocolate chips with the cherries one time and they turned out a little dry, but were devoured instantly. This recipe seems to demand variation. Next I am trying dried mango! I had to have this cookbook to cook this recipe after reading Andrew's review. The only time I have had trouble with this recipe was when I absent mindedly added the sugar to the dry ingredients, instead of to the oil and maple syrup in the pot. Even though I tried to retrieve as much sugar as possible, it wasn't enough. That liquid sugar-oil is the needed liquid/binder. The result was very delicious and moist, but completely fell apart.

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