Wow Chow Cooking

This recipe makes a nice, light meal for those end-of-summer-but-still-hot summer days. It’s also a good one to have on hand after Thanksgiving, when you are burdened with a superfluity of turkey leftovers! It has curry, one of those rare spices that has a name that has actually been converted into a verb. (Think about [...]

Here’s a recipe for flax bread that I concocted. I LOVE flax seed, and it is so good for you, too. It’s up to you if you want to just make the dough and bake the bread in your oven (which I prefer), or leave the dough in your bread machine to bake inside that. [...]

Since I recently purchased a new coffeemaker, I’m back in the experimental mode of trying new things with my coffee. I have a sensitive stomach, and while I love coffee, the acidity in it makes my stomach curl. I’m quite touchy about how my coffee is perked, and I can only drink very fresh coffee, [...]

I love Basmati rice, LOVE it. I’ve never been a rice eater, it never seemed “hearty” or flavorful enough. I always preferred potatoes or pasta (I am the perfect posterchild for a ultra 90 review, I know!). BUT I will eat Basmati rice. It’s got such a wonderful texture, and it smells incredible, mmmmm a [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, store-made brown sugar isn’t good for you. No, really– it’s just granulated white sugar with caramel coloring. YUK. I make my own, which has *minimal* nutritious value, but hey– it’s better than that caramel coloring stuff! With my recipe, you can adjust your sweetener to your own liking, whether you [...]

OK, I totally stole this from Scribbit about a year ago. I hate that woman– she can make and eat these things and not gain a SCRAP of weight!!! Gah!! And then she publishes it on her blog for all us “well-endowed” ladies to see! Gahhh!!! *sigh* Oh yeah– we JUST feed these to the [...]

We did a little experimenting this weekend with some zucchini, seeing we have a massive zucchini population explosion going on here at the Mecomber homestead. I posted about my Stuffed Zucchini recipe here, gushing about how versatile it is, etc etc. Well, my beloved daughter yanked herself away from her stereo cabinet and computer for [...]

Well, as is customary about this time of year, billions of recipes involving zucchini are blasted through the Internet cookbooks, mine included. For some reason, we had a weird occurrence with excessive zucchini this year. No no, I know everyone gets excessive zucchini EVERY year- but the weird thing is that I had the kids [...]