Lion and I took a few minutes this week to whip up some delicious zucchini bread muffins. I absolutely love to have these for on the go breakfasts and snacks throughout the week. While we don’t have sweet breads or muffins on the counter for breakfasts all the time – having them every once in…
Author: aleirenee
Carrot Cake – Semi Homemade
Lion and I made this special little treat earlier in the year but somehow I never got around to posting. So – it’s a bit late, but still delicious. This carrot cake is fabulous dressed up with cream cheese frosting for nicer occasions. As well as delicious as a morning muffin warmed in the toaster…
Puffed Buckwheat Treat Bars
Today I thought it might be fun to make a healthy-ish treat with my two wee lairds. Bear and Lion were getting a bit restless and starting to pick at each other so I figured I better come up with an activity fast. What better activity than cooking!?! You get to measure, scoop, stir, get…
Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
Today Lion and I took advantage of nap time to try a new recipe we found online. Our quest for a new recipe came after going through the pantry and realizing we have a very large bag of almond flour we need to use up. A quick google search of “almond flour cookies” gave us…
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
What’s better after a long (unintentional) break from blogging than….COOKIES!?! I spend a fairly decent amount of time attempting to plan, prep, and execute healthy meals. Some days I am successful – other days we have breakfast for dinner, or brinner as we call it. With all of this planning, prepping, stressing, moderately successful executions…
Bao / Pork Buns
Last year Lion and Bear fell in love with the animated film Abominable. They love the adorable Yeti, the great music, fun characters, and of course – the scenes of Yi’s grandmother Nai Nai in the kitchen making pork buns! Almost from the very first viewing Lion has been asking if we can have pork…
Seitan 2 ways
I have recently (in the last year or so) discovered seitan whilst going through a divine cookbook Mostly Plants by the Pollan family. After reading the cookbook cover to cover I diligently placed markers into all the recipes I wanted to try first! This particular recipe was number one on my list – and let…
Holiday Traditions
Holiday traditions, like spending all day making special meals with family, are special. The memories of these days we carry with us through our lives, and they sustain us through the toughest of times. As many of us move into our tenth month of social distancing and/or quarantine, the need for joy and tradition feels…
Grammie J’s Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes
I love sweet potatoes just about every way you can serve them. Roasted with olive oil, sea salt, and curry. Sliced thin and baked in layers with apples, pears, cardamom, and dried cranberries. Slow cooked alongside a roast. Yum, yum, and oh yeah…yum! But there is something special about the candied sweet potato pies, casseroles,…
How To: Flash Freezing Chicken
Flash freezing foods is popular and very useful for food storage. Not only do I find I lose fewer items to freezer burn, I also find it is easier to utilize individually frozen foods. The process of flash freezing for those of us at home really just refers to the process of freezing pieces of…
The Wee Lairds Kitchen 