Shiny Cooking is all about delicious, mostly vegetarian recipes that use whole grains, natural foods, local foods, and fresh food from the garden, with an emphasis on heirloom (non-hybrid) variety seed stock. Check the "about" page for more about me, and subscribe now to the RSS feed to get automatic updates.
August 31, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, appetizers, gluten-free, vegetarian • 3 comments
Want an easy, colorful, summery, fancy-schmancy looking appetizer to serve guests? These little fellas fit the bill, the bright crunch of juicy tomato mingling with sweet basil and fresh mozzarella, all drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette.
There. The food porn description is out of the way.
We threw a surprise party for Mom Saturday. As I apparently [...]
October 21, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, desserts • 2 comments
Here’s a great way to use up Italian prune plums you may have lingering in the fridge. Sweetened just a bit and roasted in the oven, their flavor is intensified, and the plums create a rich, tart sauce. Caramelized Italian plums make a great topping — spoon them on ice cream, pound cake, or rice [...]
July 17, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, desserts, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 2 comments
Check out this awesome bowl Dad found under the house.
Under the house, you say? Why yes, under the house. Why do you ask?
Oh, you didn’t know. My house got a new foundation this spring.
Wow, those plum blossoms in the background sure look pretty.
So yesterday Dad, his cousin, and the guy who works with [...]
October 27, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, cookies, daring bakers • 4 comments
okay, fine, “macarons”
Well, en français they’re called macarons. Silly Frenchies. Macarons were October’s Daring Bakers Challenge. I filled them with lime-colored peppermint buttercream, and decided they looked like little hamburgers, and since it’s that time of the year, they’re now officially Halloween Boo-Burgers. Yay!
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami [...]
June 30, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, cookies, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 4 comments
Ignore the “gluten-free” in the title. These are not some saintly cardboardy cookie things.
And I’m really not trying to be All About Baking here. Honestly.
And I’m not trying to be all health nut vegetarian gluten-free, either. FSM knows I’m a crappy vegetarian and an even more piss-poor health nut.
But you know what? These cookies [...]
September 26, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, appetizers, cookies, desserts, vegetarian • no comments yet
Here’s one amazing thing to do with leftover scraps of puff pastry: make mini palmiers. A good idea for snacks for a crowd. They’ll go fast, though!
Warning: drunken post ahead
My cousin Tone is in town, and he brought a big ass RV and several other modes of transportation with him. I countted five: the RV, [...]
February 11, 2010 in 100 calorie snack, vegan, vegetarian • 7 comments
About damn time we talked about tofu here, isn’t it? I mean, right up top there, it says “vegetarian, whole foods, and local foods recipes.” And yet, it’s taken all these months for humble tofu to even get a mention. Let’s rectify that now.
You can do this tofu roasted in a sesame and soy [...]
August 10, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, appetizers, gluten-free, vegetarian • 6 comments
Oh my. The garden asplode. Zucchini, broccoli, carrots, green beans, broccoli. And the broccoli isn’t sporting those horribly invisible green worms yet. I think.
There’s still lettuce and peas, though that’s ending now that hot temps have arrived, and cucumbers coming along, and some poblanos that are looking mighty big, and swiss chard with leaves 2 [...]
