The Recipe ReDux: Watercress Sardine Tea Sandwiches

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While I adore both foods featured in this month’s Recipe ReDux theme: “Sea What You’ve Been Missing with Seaweed and Little Fishes,” I feel obligated to encourage our readers to stock canned sardines as a pantry staple. I do. And they make for delicious dinners even faster than tuna. This is because one of my [...]

Popcorn Cake

Popcorn Cake | TeaspoonofSpice.com

Since it’s nearly Mother’s Day, I need to share about how my mom invented Popcorn Cake…The rest of this story can be found in my guest post on Food Babbles . The author of this popular blog is Kate, the co-founder of the  “First on the First” monthly baking challenge – for which I just posted Homemade Soft [...]

Homemade Soft Pretzels – {First on the First}

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I’d been looking for a good excuse to make ‘authentic’ homemade soft pretzels ever since I saw this photo in the Chicago Tribune. The food section of a newspaper is not normally the spot you see rubber-gloved-hands dipping dough in toxic chemicals! I was fascinated by the paper’s discussion of the different washes that can [...]