Zest up your life!

Remember how i made those cookies out of new york magazine once. Yes that was the beginning of a few disasters in the kitchen. I tried again. This time i decided tea would be okay. This receipe KNOCKED my socks off!

super easy and not only does it smell good, but it just makes your insides warm and fuzzy!
I forgot to take a picture of me making it...but here is how i felt



ginger citrus tea

4 cups water

1/8 cinny stick

5oz FRESH ginger

1/4 lemon peel ZESTED in strips

1/4 cut FRESH lemon juice (1 1/2 lemon)

1/3 cup honey

1/4 bunch FRESH mint

boil water and cin

peel and roughly chop ginger, add to pot with lemon and juice

cover and simmer 30 min

add honey stir, simmer 20 more min

pour over mint- strain and stir

BAM!

http://nymag.com/restaurants/recipes/inseason/62242/

um i have no excuse

Yeah...i have no idea what to say about why i haven't been writing. So how about i just get it back on track and write a bit today and a bit over the next little while before...i hope...life gets busy again.

I've been cooking, baking whatever you want to call it. The thing is i haven't taken a lot of photos mainly because i keep forgetting durning the heat of it all. But here are a few things i've done

1) Cranberry Chutney....then i made it into a preserve, but was so paranoid about killing us with botulism i made us eat it in a week and didn't see how long it could last in a jar.

2) spaghetti squash pasta...yes it was ROCKIN'

3)heart healthy pumpkin bread (with my own roasted pumpkin)

4)gingerbread

5)zested up my life with ginger citrus tea

6)BREAD BREAD BREAD

7) brought out the ancient grains---quinoa

8)pizzaz pizza!

9)corny corn bread

10) oink oink pork loin

phew. obviously i've made more than this because more than 10 meals have occurred in this house since i last wrote, but seriously, these are the ones worth mentioning.