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.
December 18, 2009 in cookies, vegetarian • 2 comments
Man, the Christmas cookie recipes and pics are piling up. Hmm, I seem to have developed an obsession with them this year.
I had some trepidation about posting this particular Christmas cookie. As I wrestled with rolling out endless walnut-sized lumps of dough, making crescents seemed a lot fussier to me than it did last [...]
December 14, 2009 in cookies, vegetarian • 9 comments
Guess what? I actually got off my arse and did some research for y’all this time.
moops?
See, the cookie we call Mexican wedding cakes, or Russian tea cakes, or polvorones in Spain, or melting moments in Australia actually has a common descendent: the “sandie” type cookie first developed by the Moors in the Middle Ages, medieval [...]
August 23, 2009 in PIE, desserts, gluten-free, vegetarian • 13 comments
Now there’s a mouthful. Know why? Because it’s so versatile. It works for the gluten-free folks. It works for the pie folks. It works for the tart folks. It works for the don’t-make-me-get-out-the-rolling-pin folks.
Even better, this walnut-oat pie crust recipe is just a prelude to the fresh blueberry pie I made it with, coming up [...]
