sugar cookies and ho...

Here is this years version of naturally colored Christmas cookies. All of the colors on these cookies are made from fruit and vegetable juices. The colors are as follows. orange = carrot red/magenta = beet light pink = cranberry yellow = pineapple green = basil purple =...

Naturally Dyed Easte...

We really scored with the blues and purples this year but not so much with warmer tones. These were the ingredients that we attempted , also not pictured was chili powder and pomegranate juice. I just forgot to put the chili powder in the photo. I switched the raspberries to pomegranate...

Christmas Cookies (P...

Can you tell which cookies Simon decorated? Since we last year we dyed Easter Eggs with only natural pigments I thought it would be fun to try and make our own natural food dyes and use them to decorate our Christmas cookies. I learned a lot in the process and I will share my processes and...

Chicken with Dried C...

I realized that haven’t posted any food photos recently.  Lately I haven’t been very motivated to cook – I need to get inspired again.  This was a pretty easy and pretty quick recipe to make. I like sweet and spicy so this one was right up my ally though it turned out a...

experimenting with n...

I got the idea off the Z recomends and I just haad to try it myself. I used the following ingredients to make my dyes; yellow – turmeric, pink – beet, purple – black berry, blue/green – store bought pomagranet juice. I started with hard boiled eggs following Martha...

Toasted Millet and R...

More from the cookbook project. These were so good! They actually have cooked millet in the batter (not millet flour) so they have a very interesting texture which I liked a lot. There is also no white sugar in the batter, you use maple syrup instead (directly in the batter). This was an...