Alexander Benavidez is a professional fermenter at Long Beach Beer Lab in southern California. He tends to what he calls “his fermentation babies” in the basement of a beer barrel room where he makes up to 600 gallons of fermented hot sauce at a time. In ‘Fermenting hot sauce’, Alexander…

In all it’s retro glory, I really love this macaroni salad recipe I received from Jason this week. It’s the type of recipe that’s been passed down through the generations, and because of that, it’s bound to be delicious and to work! …

As I’m sitting at my desk in the middle of a ten day heat wave, I’m thinking about salad. But I’m bored of salad. I’ve been eating salad all week — Caesar salad, tomato salad, potato salad, couscous salad, fruit salad — really anything can be turned into a salad…

Open the jar traybake was inspired by a recipe I read on The Modern Proper. Instead of using jars, their recipe used ingredients from the supermarket olive bar. Their recipe is also so much more measured and complicated than my version. My version is simply opening the jar and dumping…

I received the loveliest recipe for minestrone soup from Cheryl Lyda from Pocatello, Idaho. And even though I don’t have much to report, I’m still pregnant and still gone off food, I couldn’t resist sharing this delicious recipe. I’ve been spending my days listening to more music, filling the air…

I love wine. Like really love wine. I love sipping wine while I cook, adding a couple of drops to whatever I’m cooking, having another glass with dinner and maybe another while winding down while watching television. But wine in pregnancy is an absolute no-no, which is one of the…

Since January when I found out I was pregnant, I’ve found it nearly impossible to update my foodie blog with recipes. Even though I haven’t had morning sickness once, the thought of eating anything else except buttered toast, broccoli or chicken has made my nose turn. …

My house has been plagued by the common cold. Not Covid-19, or anything more serious, luckily, but a really nasty coughing, sneezing and aching cold. It’s funny that our goto when we have any type of sniffle is to put a stick up our nose testing for Covid. My six-year-old…

At the Recipe Swap we’re all about sourcing new ingredients, and the one ingredient that is going through a sort of Renaissance is alternative meat sources, like a burger made from protein found in Yellow Stone National Park or chicken made simply from air. But because everyone knows about Beyond…