junior kitchen

Dining al fresco is one of our favorite things and it gave us the perfect opportunity to try some new honey I just bought. I’ve thought about keeping bees but have not taken the plunge yet so in the meantime whenever we travel I buy honey made from local beekeepers. Since I don’t think I’ll [...]

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Homemade mustard is very good. This was what we gave as gift for Mother’s Day this year. Because our mothers are very good. And very sharp. The recipe we used we adapted from here. It makes a very sharp mustard but it did mellow after being in the fridge for a few days. The mothers [...]

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Fresh basil! A recent gift from the farm had us pull out the food processor and try something we’ve never done before — pesto. I pulled out this book, Grilling: Exciting International Flavors from the World’s Premier Culinary College, for a recipe we could modify based on what we had in the kitchen. Ingredients 2 [...]

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Summer in South Florida means mangoes, and in our family, mangoes mean homemade chutney.     This recipe comes from Nai-Nai, who uses a newspaper clipping from the 1960s as a rough guide – there’s plenty of dabs of this and pinches of that involved in the process.   Chutney is usually served as a [...]

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This recipe was fun to make and we got a chance to use a lot of cucumbers that we had from the farm. Kitchen Daddy has a deep addiction to kim chee – this is a version that uses cucumbers instead of bok choy or napa. ——- Ingredients: 6 cucumbers 2 Tb salt 2 scallions [...]

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Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, our favorite guacamole recipe. 1 avocado 1 lime 1 medium clove garlic Pepper & salt to taste. Mince garlic. Scoop out the ripe avocado into a bowl and mash with minced garlic & lime juice. Sparingly add salt & pepper. Some people like adding cumin, or salsa, or [...]

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