Fun with Brownies These fantastic Whole Wheat Gingerbread Brownies are the result of what I like to call kitchen shenanigans. I know not everyone regards cooking and baking quite the same way that I do. To me, it's an adventure. The only limit is my imagination. Well, total failure is a bit of a limiter, but we don't need to talk about that right now, do we? What if... What if I sub in whole wheat flour? It will be nuttier, richer, and maybe a little more dry, because whole wheat ... Read More about Whole Wheat Gingerbread Brownies
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Double Apple Bourbon Cake
Summer is really losing its grip here in the Northeast. The temperature has cooled off a lot - we have days of mellow sunshine and the beginnings of fall colors. It's the perfect time to make this Double Bourbon Apple Cake. When apples are just beginning to get ripe, nearly any variety is good for baking. Later in the season, everyone wants Granny Smiths and Northern Spies, but in September and October, my favorites are Cortlands. Cortland apples, developed about 20 minutes from my ... Read More about Double Apple Bourbon Cake
Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is one of the first new recipes I ever posted on The Creekside Cook. It only seems appropriate that I bring Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies back to the top to celebrate a new design. It had become increasingly evident that my old blog wasn't working all that well anymore. That is no surprise since I created the design back in the Middle Ages of the internet. Technology has changed a lot since then. I'm loving the new look, and I hope that you do as well. You can let me know in the ... Read More about Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Applesauce Quick Bread
Though the main part of my food preservation season is winding down, there are still a few things left to do. [Like make Applesauce Quick Bread, which we'll get to in just a moment!] We have apple trees, but don't get many apples from them, so it's fortunate that we can find a lot of them locally. This time of year, apples are a very good buy, since a lot of seasonal places are looking to get rid of what they have before closing for the season. No fall is complete without a trip to our older ... Read More about Applesauce Quick Bread
Avocado, Bacon and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
March is the month when I really get over winter - like completely over it. I am ok with winter in November, December, January and even February. It's supposed to be cold and snowy, and I don't mind staying in and making big pots of stew. But when March rolls around, it's time to be planning the garden, ordering the seeds I forgot back in January, making sure we have all of the seed starting supplies that we'll need, and checking to see if the daffodils have begun to peek out. This has been a ... Read More about Avocado, Bacon and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Lemony Dill Hummus
...with Cucumber Dippers! Hi there! I am picking my head up from the pails that contain our farmer's market produce to put this fantastic recipe together for you! Farmer's Market is a lot of fun, but I am not sure we could handle more than one market a week - getting everything looking good and ready to sell is a lot of work. There are people who do a market just about every day of the week, and they must be exhausted all the time! Or maybe they are a lot younger than we are. Yeah - that last ... Read More about Lemony Dill Hummus
Apple Ginger Green Smoothie
It is just the beginning of apple season here in Upstate NY. I know that a lot of people think only of the city when they hear the words "New York", but here where we live, there are way more cows than there are people, and LOTS of apples. NY is the second largest producer of apples in the United States, and we live just on the edge of the Finger Lakes, which is the most prolific apple growing part of the state. So - we got apples! There will no doubt be plenty of apple recipes appearing here ... Read More about Apple Ginger Green Smoothie
Coconut Milk Fudgesicles
Coming up with a good dessert can be a challenge in the summer time. We don't have AC, so unless it is going to cool off really well at night, I am not turning on the oven. We eat a lot of fresh fruit, and enjoy plenty of ice cream, but while that may satisfy us, it doesn't do much for the blog, ya know? But, every so often, I stumble across a concept that not only takes care of my desire to have a sweet recipe here on the blog, but also blows me away. This is one of those recipes. It is ... Read More about Coconut Milk Fudgesicles
Zucchini and Black Bean Quesadillas
I know a lot of people complain about how prolifically zucchini grows, and I might even make a joke about it every so often here on the blog, but honestly we do love it. You still might want to lock your car doors if you stop by and leave your car in our driveway for very long, though. Zucchini have minds of their own, and have been know to form little squads that somehow make their way to the back seats of the unwary visitor. And this is the time of year when people leave their dogs tied on the ... Read More about Zucchini and Black Bean Quesadillas
Fresh Cherry Almond Muffins
Darn, I so wish we could grow sweet cherries. Alas - all of our attempts to date have failed, resulting in scraggling, pathetic trees that eventually give up entirely and die. Fortunately, all of our other fruit trees seem to be pretty happy here, though we've not seen any fruit from them yet. That is nothing to fret about though, since they are still not old enough that we would be expecting much out of them. Except staying alive and growing larger that is, which they all seem to be doing. ... Read More about Fresh Cherry Almond Muffins
Roasted Garlic Hummus
One of Larry's favorite things to grow is garlic. Once you get the basics down, garlic is quite easy to grow. And you plant it in October for harvesting in July of the following year, so it's out of the way as a chore when there is so much else that needs doing in the springtime. Consequently, we usually end up with something like 125 gigantic heads of of garlic every year. We grow more than that, but you have to save your seed garlic heads for the next year, and we give away or sell some of ... Read More about Roasted Garlic Hummus
Spicy Tomato Cheese Crackers
You know those cheese crackers you can buy in the store? The little orange ones that have some kind of magnet in the bottom of the box, perfectly attuned to human physiology, so that you can't keep your hand out of there, but just keep going back in the box for another one? For a long time, they just had one flavor, but they keep adding more and more all the time, including spicy ones. Did they really have to make spicy ones? They seem to have an even stronger magnet in those boxes than the ... Read More about Spicy Tomato Cheese Crackers