Very Good Recipes of Sweets from Out of the Ordinary

There are 18 Sweets recipes on the blog Out of the Ordinary. (1336 on all the blogs)

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Collard purée with roasted sweet potatoes, ginger, smoked paprika, and lime By Out of the Ordinary 03/30/13 15:45 Hello, Ordinary friends! Don’t look now but we’re doing it again! Last week I introduced the idea of a sort of writer’s salon, hosted by The Ordinary, in which we’d all (whoever wanted to that is) write a story inspired … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Smoked Paprika Potatoes Paprika Roasted Smoked Ginger Sweets Purée Lime Add to my recipe book

Spicy, tangy, smoky, sweet: catsup with pomegranate molasses By Out of the Ordinary 03/23/13 14:53 We’re going to try something new, here at The Ordinary, and I’m quite excited about it! Allow me to explain… Once there was a website called Square America. I loved this website! It presented found photographs from various eras, arranged … Continue reading... Pomegranate Molasses Sweets Spicy Add to my recipe book

Red quinoa with chard, sweet potatoes and white beans By Out of the Ordinary 02/22/13 20:26 Yesterday was Nina Simone’s birthday. Today I want to write about her, but I don’t know where to begin. It’s hard to talk about something that you love as much as I love her music, it’s hard to talk about … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Red Quinoa Potatoes Quinoa White Sweets Chard Bean Red Add to my recipe book

Red bean, sweet potato & hominy stew and Olive oil rosemary biscuits By Out of the Ordinary 01/21/13 21:49 Well, it’s been a day of catching up after working all weekend. A day of laundry and grocery shopping and trying to get the boys to clean their room. It’s been a day of thinking about Martin Luther King Jr, … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Olive Oil Red beans Biscuits Rosemary Potato Hominy Sweets Olive Bean Stew Oil Red Add to my recipe book

Millet, red lentil, and sweet potato dal and pumpkin ricotta flatbreads By Out of the Ordinary 01/17/13 19:45 Yesterday around mid-morning, I spent ten minutes sitting on the couch in my pajamas, with Clio half-on/half-off my lap. I petted her velvety ears and watched people rush by in the rain. They seemed so busy and productive, and I … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Flatbread Ricotta Pumpkin Lentil Millet Potato Sweets Red Dal Add to my recipe book

Golden beet, turnip and sweet corn bisque By Out of the Ordinary 11/27/12 18:41 Well! Thank god all of that Thanksgiving nonsense is over, and now we can get on with our lives, and go back to being ungrateful acquisitive bastards. Now here’s my christmas list. See that you get exactly what I specify!! … Continue reading → Golden Beet Sweet Corn Bisque Turnip Sweets Corn Beet Add to my recipe book

Chickpea pot pie & sweet potato hashbrowns By Out of the Ordinary 11/21/12 00:08 Back when I had a real job, about a million years ago, I was project editor on a book that revealed the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur. It was all about money, obviously, with a lot of attention devoted … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Chickpea Pot pie Potato Sweets Pie Add to my recipe book

Savory sweet potato, turnip and pecan galette with smoked gouda and cranberry sauce By Out of the Ordinary 11/13/12 19:42 During the power outage (is she still going on about that? yes, but I’m almost done) it sometimes seemed to me that Malcolm has enough energy and Isaac is bright enough to light up the whole town. Monday night, the … Continue reading → Cranberry Sauce Sweet potatoes Cranberry Galette Savory Smoked Potato Turnip Pecan Sweets Gouda Sauce Add to my recipe book

Roasted carrot and sweet potato bisque (and more Eliza) By Out of the Ordinary 11/12/12 20:22 I feel like I’m in slow motion moving through a fog. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I have so much that I want to do, that I’m not doing any of it, and I frequently find myself on … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Roasted Bisque Potato Carrot Sweets Add to my recipe book

Power! and hurricane chili with sweet potatoes, red beans, kale and pumpkin ale By Out of the Ordinary 11/08/12 23:07 The Ordinary has power!! POWER! All the lights shut off the evening of the storm, and yesterday, on DAY TEN (!) they came on just as the first snow started to fall. I cried like a baby! First of all, … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Red beans Potatoes Pumpkin Sweets Chili Bean Kale Red Add to my recipe book

Spicy sweet roasted radish and turnip relish By Out of the Ordinary 10/15/12 22:19 Attention! From henceforth, The Ordinary will be called The Clio Chronicles! All Clio all the time. News about Clio, pictures of Clio, songs about Clio. I’m joking, of course, but it’s amazing how quickly a little creature like this can … Continue reading... Roasted Relish Radish Turnip Sweets Spicy Add to my recipe book

Crispy tofu in smoky-sweet sauce By Out of the Ordinary 08/17/12 18:06 Malcolm is on the roof. I’m so worn to a nub that I’m not telling him to get down. Not right away. We’ve had a spate of bad ideas, defiance and sassiness, here at The Ordinary, that has us retreating … Continue reading → Sweets Sauce Tofu Add to my recipe book

Isaac’s sweet and spicy ice cream By Out of the Ordinary 07/28/12 16:49 “What kind of ice cream shall we make?” I asked Isaac. “Carrot ice cream!” He said with a giggle. Little does he know that I actually plan to make carrot ice cream some day! Watch this space! In the end, … Continue reading → Ice Cream Sweets Spicy Add to my recipe book

Puffy roasted sweet potato and rosemary flatbread By Out of the Ordinary 04/26/12 17:39 The night we had these for dinner, Malcolm asked if he could have another. (I think he’d already had two!) I said, without thinking, “No, I’ve got to save them for a photograph.” Then I realized how crazy I’d gotten. … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Flatbread Rosemary Roasted Potato Sweets Add to my recipe book

Sweet and spicy soup with red bean wontons By Out of the Ordinary 04/16/12 18:33 This morning on our bike ride we drove down a street lined with flowering trees. The fragrance was intoxicating, and the white petals carpeted the street and fell all around us. It was a beautiful moment, and it reminded me … Continue reading → Red beans Wonton Sweets Spicy Bean Soup Red Add to my recipe book

Collards with sweet, spicy, salty peanuts By Out of the Ordinary 03/08/12 18:33 Sometimes the recipe picks the song, and sometimes the song picks the recipe. Most of the time, I’ll think of what I’d like to cook (and eat!) and the music will come into my head while I’m making it. Yesterday, … Continue reading → Peanut Sweets Spicy Add to my recipe book

Cousous, sweet potato, goat cheese croquettes By Out of the Ordinary 02/28/12 00:15 For these tasty croquettes I repurposed some lovely vintage articles that had been artisanally handcrafted a couple of days ago. That’s right, I used leftovers. Red beans left over from the stew, sweet potatoes left over from the fries, and … Continue reading... Sweet potatoes Croquettes Cheese Potato Sweets Goat Add to my recipe book

Kale, sweet potato & chickpea stew with cumin, paprika & lime By Out of the Ordinary 01/12/12 19:49 Kale is not one of those shy and retiring greens that wilts away to nothing at the first sign of attention. I admire that quality. The presence of kale in this dish is probably what makes it a stew rather … Continue reading → Sweet potatoes Chickpea Paprika Potato Sweets Cumin Kale Lime Stew Add to my recipe book