Baked Ziti

A baked pasta dish made up of ziti pasta, marinara sauce, sweet Italian sausage, mozzarella cheese, and fresh spinach for some color, nutrition, and fiber.  I like to refer to this dish as my lazy-person’s lasagna.  It has a similar flavor profile to a traditional lasagna, but none of the hassle of layering in all…

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Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Flatbreads

Here is my other promised flatbread post.  Sun-dried tomato and fresh basil flatbreads made out of a blend of cornmeal, semolina, and regular flour and spiked with a bottle of hard cider. Ingredients: 1 cup Cornmeal + more for dusting 1 cup Semolina Flour 2-3 cup Flour 2 tsp Salt 1 tbsp Honey 4 tsp…

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Snowdrift Muffins

My snowdrift muffins are coconut muffins with white chocolate chips.  Decent fresh fruit is hard to find at this time of the year, and I have been branching out into the use of other dried and preserved fruits.  I love dried coconut, but it has the tendency to dry out your baked goods if you…

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Dinner Rolls

The bread recipe of the week are these lovely buttermilk dinner rolls.  They are light, solidly formed, and subtly flavored by honey and lemon zest.  I added some sprouted wheat flour to the mix for some additional protein, but, if you do not have any on hand, feel free to use regular flour, or substitute…

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