Condiments | Cravings of a Lunatic

Meyer Lemon Sugar

April 16, 2013 by Kim Beaulieu 26 Comments

Welcome to another day of Meyer Lemon Madness. Today brings you a recipe to make your own flavoured sugar. It's s simple recipe to make your own Meyer Lemon Sugar. You can use regular lemons in the recipe if Meyers are not in season, or available in your area. Any recipe using Meyer Lemons you can swap in regular lemons if you need to. Meyers are just a touch sweeter. I love Meyer Lemons. It's like an obsession when they are in season. I just cannot get enough of them. I thought I was down to … [Read more...]

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Meyer Lemon Salt {regular lemons can be used}

April 7, 2013 by Kim Beaulieu 37 Comments

Meyer Lemon Salt by Cravings of a Lunatic

I am sure by now you are aware of how much I love Meyer Lemons. If you are a regular reader you might also be aware how much I love flavoured salts. I use vanilla salt in almost all of my baking recipes. It seemed time to introduce you to the salt I use on fish. This Meyer Lemon Salt is fabulous on any fish recipe. I cannot use it enough. Much like my beloved vanilla salt. If you do not get meyer lemons in your area you can make this with regular lemons. But I beg you, if you have … [Read more...]

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Cherry Extract #SundaySupper

November 11, 2012 by Kim Beaulieu 121 Comments

Hi folks. When the Sunday Supper crew announced we were doing Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen as our theme this week I may have jumped for joy. I mean just a little. I love giving home-made gifts so I knew this was going to be fun. The possibilities are endless when it comes to gifts you can give people from the kitchen. Cookies, bars, bark, snack mix, chocolates, bread, candy, alcohol and the list goes on and on. You can also make gifts in jars that the recipient just adds some wet … [Read more...]

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Peach Salsa

August 6, 2012 by Kim Beaulieu 47 Comments

Hi folks. Every month I post with a wonderful group of bloggers called The Secret Recipe Club. Each month we all get assigned a different blog to visit and make something from. It's such an amazing group as it opens you up to other blogs you may not have known about. … [Read more...]

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Green and Black Olive Tapenade: Guest Post by Bake Your Day

March 29, 2012 by Kim Beaulieu 33 Comments

Hi folks. Well today is a special day indeed. The lovely Cassie from Bake You Day is visiting the asylum today. She brought the most flavourful dish with her. If you know Cassie then you know this is par for the course for her. Her food is always beautiful, bright, full of flavour and incredibly appealing. Every single thing she makes is spot on. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Condiments, Cravings of a Lunatic, Easy Recipes, Featuring, Guest Post, Healthy Recipes, Misc, Quick Recipes, Random, Snacks Tagged With: black olives, dip, green olives, olive recipes, party food, snacks, tapenade, tapenade recipe

Roasted Garlic and Reflections

December 24, 2011 by Kim Beaulieu 35 Comments

Hi folks. I have a quick recipe for you. Before I get to that I'd like to take a minute to say thanks to everyone who supports me and my crazy blog. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. You tolerate my ramblings, my nonsensical rants, my weird posting schedule, my veering off topic, my ugly pictures, and my strange sarcastic sense of wit. … [Read more...]

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Spicy Sorta Pesto/ Sorta Salsa

August 22, 2011 by Kim Beaulieu 46 Comments

Hi folks. I hope you all enjoyed your weekends. I know I sure did. Not too many left before my hooligans go back to school. And when I say hooligans I mean both my university students. So weird. Both my kids officially done with high school and entering adulthood. One of those kids is 23 today. Yup, B is 23 years old today. Time sure flies by. … [Read more...]

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Sriracha Eggplant Fries

August 11, 2011 by Kim Beaulieu 24 Comments

Hey folks. This has to be a quickie as it's 3 am and I need my beauty sleep. So will make this snappy. But wanted to get it up here for you folks to enjoy. Or point and laugh at. Whatever.So I got adventurous with the eggplant I picked up at the fruit stand. This is what I did:I know right. Who takes a healthy veggie and does this:I mean you'd have to be out of your mind to take an eggplant and do this:So clearly I've lost my marbles. And when one losing their marbles they do things like this:Ah … [Read more...]

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The Shiksa’s Ima Burgers and a Foodbuzz Thank you!

August 11, 2011 by Kim Beaulieu 10 Comments

Okay so I've been a slacker the last day or so. I know, I know. But with all the fun attention from getting on foodbuzz (did I tell you all how much I love you for that!) top 9 for the first time I was just kind of basking in it for a day. Not that I wasn't cooking. I was just stressing over how to follow up that brownie recipe. I must thank everyone who voted for it, you guys rock. It was my first time on the list and I was so thrilled I pretty much woke up the whole family with my hooting and … [Read more...]

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