It’s October and Andrea is keeping cozy in the kitchen making homemade pantry items — granola, mayonnaise and a dried mushroom powder that’s perfect for sprinkling on eggs, veggies and popcorn. In London, Stefin is plowing through the six pounds (!) of wheat germ she (mistakenly) ordered with batches of granola and muffins. And both […]
The hosts are having a great time seeing listeners post their favorite cookbooks to the Preheated Facebook group. Listener Ingrid’s recommendation of Nathalie Dupree’s classic Matters of Taste takes Andrea right back to her post-college days in the mid-’80s. Listeners: Keep posting those cookbook favorites to our Facebook wall, and listen in to Episode 48 […]
After a disastrous experience with an usually foolproof banana bread recipe, Andrea introduces a new mini-segment, Almost Edible. Warning: Do not eyeball bourbon or butter (especially when it’s $8.69 a pound!). English teatime favorite Lemon Drizzle Cake was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Andrea enjoyed this one-bowl loaf cake with its straightforward […]
Andrea is having fun baking away from home in double ovens she’s calling “auxiliary ovens,” which are two ovens side-by-side. Her latest bake in the auxiliary oven involved making Smitten Kitchen’s Blueberry Crumb Bars, which she pre-mixed at home into a homemade box mix to take along on a vacation. These bars turned out GREAT and […]
This week Stefin finds a new protein packed snack from Good Housekeeping magazine, the Spiced Plum Quinoa Muffin. If you’re looking for a quick way to add protein to your breakfast pastry, try this out. Andrea is raving about audiobooks, especially those she can check out from Overdrive through her library. She and her 6th […]
Since it’s back-to-school time, Andrea asks Stefin for some guidance with school lunch packing. Stefin’s top two tips: Use leftovers in a thermos, and pack it up the night before. (Also, and perhaps most crucially: Farm this chore out to your kid.) Andrea is proud of an original creation she recently whipped up: Marionberry Coconut […]
It’s the last week of August, and Stefin is sending her kids off to their new London school. She reports that hot lunch is on the menu for her two, as it the seemingly worldwide phenomenon of “snack” (with some restrictions her son may struggle with). Andrea has her own thoughts on feeding children every […]
Our hosts kick off this week’s episode with a new discovery: vanilla bean powder! Andrea used the powder in a new recipe for baked donuts from Baked by an Introvert. Stefin continues her struggle with temperature conversions in the UK and her convection oven. Her old standard recipe, Carolynn’s Chocolate-Chip Cookies, didn’t turn out too […]
Stefin starts off the show admitting to a few pangs of homesickness for the Pacific Northwest, but has discovered that making familiar foods is a good way to beat the blues — especially the Plum Cobbler with Cinnamon Biscuits that she makes every summer. Back in Washington, Andrea is debating entering the Thurston County Fair’s […]
Andrea and Stefin reunite after their July hiatus with their first international chat! Stefin is (almost) live from London and though her house is still a work in progress, she and Andrea waste no time catching up. Stefin’s enjoying her London kitchen’s dual ovens (one of which magically turns into a microwave). After a successful […]