Keigley Approved Recipes
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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Pinterest Test Kitchen: Donut Muffins Good, Cinnamon Quinoa Bars Bad
Success and failure. It seems that is just the way the cookie’s been crumbling lately. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first – that’s the way I like to roll. These cinnamon quinoa bars. I like cinnamon and I like quinoa so I figured I’d give it a shot. What can I say? It looked fine. From the top. But as I began to cut it, it felt, uh – spongy. Rubber-like. It was pretty much like cold quinoa from the drain, all mushy and chewy. A hint of cinnamon attempting to disguise its globbiness. I asked my little go-to taste tester Otto his opinion. He couldn’t even chew…
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Pinterest Test Kitchen: Crock Pot Failures, Soup Is Fine and Oatmeal Bars Extraordinaire
Ah, Pinterest recipes – I have not forgotten you. Me and Pinterest recipes have still been hanging out like the old chums we are. I just haven’t had the time to take cute photos of the food we’ve been crafting together. Also – there’s been a few flops of late from my Cook This board and that’s always a tad discouraging. Let me just get the flops out of the way first. Well – there was that one night I thought it’d be wise and clever to put breakfast in the crock pot with this apple oatmeal crock pot concoction. All we got out of this was wasted apples, gooey…
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natural to the core, or to the pit.
We’re drinking raw milk at our house. (I’ve been drinking it most of my life actually, thanks to that dairy farm upbringing.) With Bergen’s encouragement we’ve learned about the dangers of a plethora of initials from BHT to GMO to MSG. High fructose corn syrup rarely sneaks its way into our meals or on our shelves. Two rabbits are living in hutches at our house and twelve chickens have free range of our yard. The word “natural” is not foreign here. But for a long time there was one area that I just didn’t want to listen to the reports or hear the arguments against or for. It was the…
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My Pinterest Test Kitchen: Cook This – German Chocolate Fudge Bites
I’m not anti-sugar. But I sure am trying to bake more with less sugar. I pinned these German Chocolate Fudge Bites a rawther long time ago. Intrigued by the picture, I clicked the rectangular “pin it” and moved on with my day. Eventually, I read the ingredient list, saw that the primary ingredient was dates and never gave these bites another thought. I’d never tried a date but they looked like overweight old raisins and seemed like the primary ingredient in fruit cake and neither of those facts drew me to the date as a viable food option. A few weeks ago we were going to a friend’s house and…
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My Pinterest Test Kitchen. Cook This: Quinoa Cakes
We have been making this recipe since I first stumbled (was pulled along) into the world of Pinterest. In fact, I figured I had written a post about it, but my extensive (read: two and a half minute) search of my blog reveals that I have not. Quinoa Cakes. Growing up I only knew a couple of side dishes – white rice, instant mashed potatoes. Um. Yep. That’s all I really remember eating from the plate beside our standard beef offering and peas or corn. I can’t remember when I first tried quinoa. But I know it’s changed our family’s diet completely. I think it’s our go-to grain. (We’ve tried…
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My Pinterest Test Kitchen. Cook This: Granola Bars.
And so after the rousing success of the cinnamon roll I told you I would share some of the recipes I’ve been whipping up lately. I have been racing through my Pinterest Cook This board. Maybe you’re like me and you pin a bunch of delicious looking food and sometimes you make it and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes I wonder if what my ring-laden hands create could ever possibly match the perfectly-lit photographic images on the computer screen. Could anything that divine be produced in my full sun yellow, usually somewhat disheveled, kitchen? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. Anyway. Here’s my plan. I pin it. I cook it. I tell you…
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whatcha’ got cookin’?
Sometimes I just get in a mood. A mood to use goofy grammar in a blog title. A mood to cook up a variety of new recipes. A mood to not make the same meal twice all month. Just a mood. You know? Last week Bergen was in a mood to make our own frozen yogurt. So we did. I should have read the recipe through more closely. I tend to have this habit of checking the ingredient list but not reading the instructions prior to committing to that particular recipe. Which is what happened with the yogurt. You had to first cook the blueberries on the stove top. And…
