tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55107487902792181582024-03-12T20:38:49.509-04:00The Non-Foodie FoodieThe culinary adventures of a non-foodie foodie yearning to learn more. There are recipes, commentaries and tidbits that our aspiring domestic goddess has come across in her journey.Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-10935159770180706192018-01-16T14:40:00.000-05:002018-01-16T14:40:23.800-05:00Snowman Pancakes - Simple and Fun!
photo: Non-Foodie Foodie
Over the summer we traveled the Ohio River Valley visiting family. One of our stops was to visit my Aunt Cathy and Uncle Brian. They have 2 grown boys (I mean like 6 foot plus grown boys) so they were excited to have babies back in her house - my 3 year old niece and nephew and my Shorty. My Aunt Cathy broke out her big fry pan and made the most amazing shaped Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-30192717128027279522015-05-20T15:27:00.001-04:002015-05-20T15:27:52.437-04:00Indoor S'mores BarsNow that I'm a mom - it's opens a whole new world of food and food prep for me. When looking to make something Munchkin can help me with, there are different things to think about - what can she help me make that won't make her sick if she eats a little before it's done? What can we make that can have some margin of error for the amount that will end up on the floor? What Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-36297105330760109812015-05-06T14:44:00.000-04:002015-05-06T15:38:43.889-04:00A lot of LIFE was happening all at onceSo... 2014 was busy year. It was full of extremes to say the least. Let me start at the beginning.
I got the best news of my life in August of 2013 - my husband and I were expecting!! We had been trying for a while and had finally been blessed with this new life and truly starting a family.
This amazing news was followed by the worst news of my life just that December - my father was diagnosedHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-14850109562515072292013-12-04T09:51:00.002-05:002013-12-04T09:52:48.813-05:00Leave of AbsenseHello all,
I wanted to thank you for continuing to come back to my blog and support me. I also want to apologize for not having any new content up since last April.
Looking back at 2013, I am actually pretty excited and super sad to have it come to a close. There were some wonderful times including a beautiful wedding and two wonderful babies entering into the lives of my closest Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-57618121475812162922013-04-05T11:39:00.004-04:002013-04-05T11:39:41.786-04:00Cookbook Challenge #7 - The Irish Pub Cookbook
It’s
now three weeks PAST St. Patrick’s Day, but I feel that any day is good
for a cheesecake, especially a boozy Bailey’s and Guinness cheesecake!
For
St. Patrick’s Day, we do a gathering at our house. It’s the second
largest to Christmas for us. My staple dessert is my St. Patrick’s Day
Cake (a Guinness Cake base, with Jameson Irish Whiskey buttercream and
Bailey’s Irish Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-82087814426952635652013-04-01T15:17:00.000-04:002013-04-01T15:28:13.490-04:00Food Penpal for March 2013When I was a teenager, I had a plethora of penpals. I wrote every day with friends and acquaintance all over the United States and even the world. My main topic of conversation was The New Kids on the Block and other pop music icons of the late 80's and early 90's.
I spent hours writing letters about my Boston fab five were. My penpals and I exchanged tokens like pins, Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-24792810399405446282013-03-22T14:58:00.000-04:002013-03-22T15:31:10.534-04:00Cookbook Challenge #6 - Jamie Oliver’s Great BritainMy most recent challenge has a bit of a twist, a Jamie Oliver “twist”, that is!
Sur La Table is a high end national cookery supply store. They offer you everything from a $5 metal spatula to a $5,500 home coffee “center”. Along with their vast array of products, they offer classes
on all types of cooking, from entertaining to honing your knife skills to the finer points of cooking a soufflé. Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-46193993886014945502013-03-15T10:37:00.000-04:002013-03-15T12:45:25.093-04:00Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Guinness Cake for St. Patrick's DayMy husband is Irish-American. 100% Irish on both sides, so as you can imagine, Saint Patrick's Day is an official holiday in our house. Now, we aren't the green beer and pot of gold Irish, we are the corned beef and shepherd's pie dinner at home type. There must be good beer, of course, but we make sure it's Guinness and Smithwicks with a round of Irish Coffee and Bushmills for an aperitif.
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-68817186773285839402013-03-07T13:09:00.000-05:002013-03-14T14:05:38.059-04:00Cookbook Challenge #5 - Cakes Winning RecipesThis past weekend I hosted Ladies Night for the first time in my apartment. Ladies Night is a night once a month that the local ladies in my husbands family get together (sans kids and husbands) to eat appetizers, munch on desserts and chew on good conversation. Sometimes the cards come out or the quarters are pulled out for a fun game of Left, Right, Center.
We have been holding Ladies Nights Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-18192821517179779422013-03-01T13:18:00.000-05:002013-03-01T13:35:38.418-05:00Snack Works Recipe RumbleIt was another crazy Thursday in NYC. If you follow me on Instagram, you can see that I spent the day at a recipe contest.
The contest, called the Snack Works Recipe Rumble, was held at the Digitas, advertising agency that handles the account for the Mondelēz International Corporate (Snack Works parent company) and was open to agency employees and their friends. Thanks to my good friend, Cat, IHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-40171143971913117562013-02-22T21:42:00.001-05:002013-02-22T22:14:08.570-05:00Cookbook Challenge #4 - Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade CookingThis week, there was a bit of a delay in my post…but for good reason. We are spending the weekend in a rental apartment in Syracuse, NY. Everything was covered in a picturesque layer of snow and the moment we arrived, a welcoming flurry greeted us with a cool February smile.
Being away from home, I thought this would be a great opportunity to think outside my kitchen. I decided that the Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-85086995233803861942013-02-14T13:50:00.004-05:002013-02-14T13:52:24.740-05:0052 Cookbooks Challenge #3: Little Paris Kitchen Last weekend we found Nemo. Snowstorm Nemo made its way through New York City and up the east coast fulfilling the snowy wishes of those of us that haven’t seen much of the white stuff so far this winter. A final count of 12-24 inches of snow painted a winter wonderland for a Saturday morning and definitely sparked the need for a little kitchen warmth and hearth love. Lucky for me, Rachel KhooHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-6012387723162555792013-02-08T12:47:00.001-05:002013-02-14T16:12:10.699-05:00Week off the Challenge for a Craft FairI don't want to disappoint and I know it's early to be taking a "break" but I swear I have a good reason.
My friend, Cat and I will be sharing a table at the Astoria Craft Fair at the Beer
Garden this Sunday, February 10 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.. We will be
selling cookies, beautiful handmade toys and tea cozies and handmade
earrings.
For more information on the Astoria Market Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-74040947028309460262013-01-30T16:11:00.000-05:002013-01-30T16:38:33.279-05:0052 Cookbooks Challenge #2: Easy Breakfast & Brunch: Simple Recipes for Morning Treats
When my husband and I moved in together, I realized I was going to have to become the "Queen of the Brunch". My husband worked the 4 p.m. to midnight shift, Wednesday to Sunday. If we wanted to entertain together, it would have to be on the weekend before he left for work at 2 p.m. This means Brunch. The next logical step to becoming a Queen is to get a killer cookbook, so I hopped
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-55475887980745939362013-01-23T15:58:00.000-05:002013-01-30T16:21:31.330-05:0052 Cookbooks Challenge #1: Nigella Kitchen
My first of new recipes for the New Year was from my culinary idol, Nigella Lawson (are you really surprised?).
On my honeymoon, Nigella’s Kitchen debuted on the shelves. It was great, I was in England for my honeymoon and my favorite cook had a new cookbook out and she was English – how perfect!! I picked up a copy at the airport (couldn’t wait). I was so excited to have a true English Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-61695844653320103252013-01-17T16:41:00.000-05:002013-01-17T16:55:45.883-05:0052 Weeks, 52 Cookbooks
After a year hiatus from writing, I've decided that I'm going to challenge myself. My challenge - 52 weeks, 52 cookbooks.
Way
back when Friendster was old, but MySpace was new, I had looked at my
cookbook collection and realized that I had purchased quite a few
cookbooks, but never had cooked out of them. They were pretty and fat
with ideas of culinary delights, but there were only a Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15745078933959121668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-23651535076267136702011-12-14T16:49:00.000-05:002011-12-14T16:49:24.338-05:00Gingerbread NYC Style - Gingerbread BrownstoneThis is a wonderful post I saw on Facebook today (posted by Etsy) that give instructions on how to make a Gingerbread Brownstone.
Enjoy and share if you give it a go!
Build a Gingerbread Brownstone
By: kitchentablescraps
http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Gingerbread-Brownstone/
Holy crap! This is awesome!!
And...she lights up!
Photos borrowed from instructables.com to showHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-38570559023703438252011-10-06T13:39:00.001-04:002011-10-06T13:39:41.429-04:00London Fog in NYCStarbucks had a drink a few years back they called a London Fog. It
was an Early Grey tea with extra bergamont, vanilla and lavender added
made latte style. It was sweet, floral, deep and warming all at the
same time. It reminded you of the chill of London on a a crisp fall morning. Ah...perfection!
They have since gotten rid of it (as all
good hot tea drinks get Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-58991930592590524092011-09-26T11:02:00.001-04:002011-09-26T11:02:11.978-04:00The Last Few Days of September...When I think of September, a bright red apple comes to mind. There is a slight crispness in the air and school is back in full swing. The leaves haven't turned yet, but football is in the field and on the TV and chili is on the stove.
But in recent memory, September is just as balmy and hot as August. The AC is still on overnight and it's way to hot to make apple pie in my Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-89654069493729290172011-09-20T16:09:00.000-04:002011-09-20T16:09:21.338-04:00The First Annual NYC Honey Festival - An Afternoon in RockawaySo I pick up my most recent edition of Edible Queens and I see an ad for the First Annual New York City Honey Festival on September 17th. What fun! I love honey and it would be awesome to spend the day at Rockaway Beach and taste local honey.
I think a lot of people had the same idea we did. We showed up at about 2:30pm and the place had almost run out of honey already. Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-12681504174966651532011-09-13T14:23:00.000-04:002011-09-13T14:23:11.495-04:00Kiss the Cook - My Ode to Nigella LawsonDuring my class, one of our assignments was to write a short description of a TV personality. I chose my culinary idol, Nigella Lawson. Enjoy...
A medieval and modern language student gone cook (via food writing for The Sunday Telegraph and The New York Times), this British Cookbook author and TV personality is deemed The Domestic Goddess by her fans and the press alike. Nigella Lawson’s Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-31406612941994714662011-08-24T14:25:00.000-04:002011-08-24T14:25:25.465-04:00Special Diet? No Problem! No Special Diet? Not to Miss! Pala PizzaVegan and gluten free are not restrictions in my diet. I'm a NY style extra cheese slice kind of girl, but my recent meal at Pala Pizza just might turn me.
Pala Pizza, located on Allen Street just south of Houston, is a modern rustic style pizzeria catering to both the gluten free and vegan communities. The atmosphere is one of clean lines and warm tones. Exposed brick walls and dried herb Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-60762060302352706202011-07-13T09:00:00.001-04:002011-07-13T09:00:01.281-04:00Over 100 Years of the Hamburger Sandwich
New Haven, CT, is the home to Yale University, Peabody Museum of Natural History, and more importantly, Louis' Lunch.
Since 1895, Louis' Lunch has been making the Hamburger Sandwich. This historic sandwich consists of a medallion of prime meat, cooked to medium rare perfection, sandwiched between two pieces of white bread, toasted in toasters also original to the kitchen. Though Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-76668519196304117682011-06-23T20:22:00.000-04:002011-06-23T20:22:57.425-04:00My Third and Final Assignment in the Series - Describe the Taste of a Food ItemHere goes...
My Goodburger Burger
Warm and cool. Sweet and savory. Creamy and crumbly. Smoky and sharp. Tart and mellow. Meaty and bready.
Red onions, dill pickles, cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, medium rare ground meat and a toasted bun. Yum!
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510748790279218158.post-79905065196464406562011-06-20T17:21:00.001-04:002011-06-20T17:22:30.365-04:00My Second Assignment (After Class Feedback) - Describe the Smell of a Food ItemAssignment #2 - I kind of missed the mark with the smell, but it's still a pretty good story to read.
The Doughnut...
The raw, flour scented dough is something unspectacular until it meets the unassuming, unflavored hot oil. Once the two meet, the air fills with the scents of vanilla and butter. After 30 seconds, the scent of crisp, sweet bread is added to the mix and in a final 30 Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599921005608659834noreply@blogger.com0