Welcome to Burnt Toast food blog. We’re Lee and Rebel, mom and daughter home cooks.
Join us in a conversation about our favorite foods, family stories, recipes we’ve updated for food intolerances, and the fun we have cooking together for parties and gatherings.
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All tagged Dinner
We had the munchies and recreated a Taco Bell favorite, the Mexican Pizza, which sad to say has been discontinued.
We’re finally sitting on the patio again, together, enjoying the late afternoon with its low, slanting light and a cool, fall breeze. What a relief – the wildfire smoke has finally cleared, at least for today.
There’s nothing quite so crowd-pleasing as a taco bar. I learned leading Girl Scout troops and youth groups, the way to work around a myriad of preferences, allergies and picky eating is to offer a food bar where kids can add their favorite toppings and customize what they eat.
We can’t wait to be together and cook together again, but in the meantime, here’s a fun challenge: social distance nachos.
Our whole vibe is cooking together and offering recipes for gatherings. Every part of this is hard right now.
Rebel claims that I start thinking about Thanksgiving recipe ideas around, say, July. As she joked with me a couple of summers ago about this, I said she exaggerated. Once she’d pointed it out, I noticed, ok sure, some years it happens. Actually, maybe every year.
Here’s one more food allergy you may not have heard about: some people can’t eat red meat, including pork. Hard to believe if you haven’t run up against it.
We wanted to create a variation on egg salad that had plenty of curry and spice — and, of course, we made them dairy free. Master chefs that we are (hah, can you sense the sarcasm?), we made tiny mixtures of mayo and spices and tasted them.
