Google added a new section to its search engine! Now when you want to search for recipes, you can use the new Google recipe search. You can even filter your results by ingredients, cook time, or calories. This is going to be handy!

Google Recipe Fact Page

I have two dreams for that day when I magically win several million dollars in a lottery that I’ve never entered. The first is that I want a fantastic library. One of those libraries where there are floor to ceiling bookshelves on every wall and several comfy reading couches. Oh, and a window seat. Definitely a window seat.

The second dream is that I want a huge kitchen. One where I can actually store all of our kitchen things, not just shove them on top of the cabinets and refrigerator. I want a kitchen that has lots of wall space so I can display fun food art like this:

and this:

These brilliant creations are from the blog Meat Sections. I have just wasted a ridiculous amount of time browsing through this blog. I love it! This blog is where Alyson posts her daily butchery style diagrams – mostly of food, but sometimes of things much more hilarious. If you need a way to spend a few minutes (by a few, I mean at least 30), then go check it out. If you really like her stuff you can buy it from her Etsy shop, drywell.

I’ve found two new cooking blogs, Recipe Look and They Draw and Cook, that I think are really fun. They are both sites where people submit their illustrated recipes. Maybe someday I’ll have enough time to create some of these. Until then, I’ll enjoy what others have done. 🙂 Here are two that caught my eye:

There is this restaurant in Idyllwild called The Bread Basket. They have a squaw bread that is delicious, and I miss it. This is the first squaw bread recipe I’ve tried, and while this recipe is not the same bread, it is pretty yummy. It’s quite sweet due to the honey and raisins, but it makes great toast. I followed the recipe and split it into four loaves, but I think next time I’ll split it into two because the loaves were really small. I got the recipe from AllRecipes.com. You can try it for yourself here: Squaw Bread

There are more bread pictures here: Bread of the Month

Well, I kind of didn’t get around to making any bread during March, so in April I made two things. Spelt Everything Crackers were the first. I’ve been wanting to make these for a long time. They’re from the blog Smitten Kitchen.  Hers definitely turned out prettier, I gotta say.

These are ridiculously easy. I couldn’t find sesame seeds, so I used sunflower seeds. I also accidentally bought paprika covered dried onions. They both tasted pretty good. I definitely learned one important thing about cracker making. After you sprinkle your toppings on, you need to go over them with a rolling pin to kind of push them into the dough. If you don’t you get some pretty plain crackers in a bowl and a mess of ingredients all over your counter. The second attempt on these crackers was much more successful as a result of this discovery.

There are more pictures here: Bread of the Month