Category Archives: Recipes

There’s a birthday at Rock Bottom Homestead today! Mine!! Yay Me! What is planned? Well, it’s a lovely (though cool) day – we have more peas to get in (they’ve already been soaked in coffee so they need to go in pronto) and the planting onions are in the fridge so they need to goContinue reading “Birthday Dinner: Tuna Shish Kabob”

You read that right – that’s how we spell it around here. Why? ’cause it’s funnier that way, that’s why. Homeskooling is hilarious because you really get to not only see the ridiculousness of some of our learning systems but you also get to mess with your kids…take spelling, for instance – many words areContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Froot Crisp (GF)”

I know – I’m sorry – Duendesday slipped right by in the busy and bustle of online meetings yesterday. I can tell you she’s developing a new comic series of Bunnies (and a comic relief duck princess) and the perspectives are hilarious. Today she wants to cuddle up in our animal onesies (no, J doesn’tContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Roast Chicken & Sweet Potato Gratin”

You just read that title twice, didn’t you, because it instantly sounds soooooo good. If you are on lockdown and need some magickal, relatively healthy, homey food – don’t fret. If you are out and about in the countryside (where here it is still pretty chilly), this will warm you up. If you are justContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Creamy Beans & Barley en Brodo with Roasted Cauliflower”

We succumbed to the romanticism of Spain, for sure, even before we got to spend a month there 10 years ago (a very telling 10 years as we suspected halfway through our trip that we were pregnant – ‘my baby loves this Spanish wine!’, ‘my baby loves morcilla!’) – we read Chris Stewart’s Driving OverContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Patatas a lo Pobre”

I kid you not. A magickal space between fudge and cake exists and it is in these brownies…when you are feeling sad or needy or have a deep chocolatey sweet tooth urging you to find the happy place, or even if you are in a lovely appreciative-of-all-the-worlds-gifts kind of mood – this will exalt youContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Best Ever Brownies”

A few years ago (alright, more than a few years ago, as we were living in Boston), a friend in publishing gave us a copy of Sudha Koul’s Curries Without Worries. A slim little Intro to Indian Cuisine with no pictures – I thought, “I am never going to use this, there’s no food porn!” (whichContinue reading “Recipe: Indian Dinner”