I shared my post for Serinakaker with the only two people left who might remember my grandma’s cookies, my brother and cousin. One remembered and one kinda didn’t, but my cousin has her mother’s recipe box that includes three new … Continue reading Another Contender for Grandma’s Cookies—Buttermilk Cookies
Remember when I took my go-to Quick Banana Bread and turned it into Whole Wheat Oatmeal Banana Bread? It turned out very well, and it wasn’t the first time I had started with the simple recipe and made simple changes … Continue reading Apple Oat Bran Muffins
I’ve been eating this dressing in an apple salad with walnuts and dried figs for lunch recently, but it would be good with any fruit or vegetable salad or with chicken strips or wings. The blue cheese is the star, … Continue reading Blue Cheese Ranch Dressing
I suppose you’ve seen the Molasses Ginger cookies featured on my home page, and maybe I’ve said that oatmeal-raisin are my all-time favorite cookie, so it should come as no surprise that bran muffins with molasses and raisins are my … Continue reading Buttermilk Bran Muffins
I had to get that two day cranberry experiment out of my head, plus, I had buttermilk in the fridge calling to me. I had some figs and some walnuts, so all I needed was the blue cheese—some Stilton to … Continue reading Savory Scones: Blue Cheese, Figs, and Walnuts
My old Betty Crocker says that you can make either an apple pie or a blueberry pie “Dutch” by pouring a little heavy cream into the filling, either before you put the top crust on your blueberry pie, or 15 … Continue reading Peaches and Cream Pie
This pot pie uses the chicken thigh meat I cooked in my recent chicken fest. I thought about just making a chicken and biscuits casserole, but I haven’t made a pot pie in a long time and settled on that … Continue reading Chicken Pot Pie with Buttermilk Crust
Yet another use for using up that buttermilk you bought for the biscuits. Plus, I just felt like making a loaf of bread. It happened to be on a day when I made another one of those beer-can chickens on … Continue reading Buttermilk Bread with Oatmeal and Honey
These bars came out with just the creamy texture I was looking for, unlike some of the pasty, gummy bars I’ve tried in testing. As I suggested in my post about searching for the right buttermilk bar, I think most … Continue reading Buttermilk Coconut Bars
It started with the buttermilk dressing for the chickpea salad of the last post, but like all buttermilk recipes, one leads to another, because no one here wants to drink the stuff, so I have to use it up. Next … Continue reading A Buttermilk Week
This is one of those posts that’s almost more about what we don’t like. We don’t like lettuce is number one. He doesn’t like cucumbers, and almost as much tomatoes and mushrooms. I don’t like sour, vinegary salad dressings, nor … Continue reading Chickpea, Bacon, Zucchini Salad
There was buttermilk after a recent biscuit menu, so scones were inevitable. Thought I’d try something savory this time instead of the usual fruit scones I like. These are pretty rich and practically a meal in themselves, so don’t plan … Continue reading Blue Cheese Bacon Scones
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