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Recipes
“Good Nutrition Brings Double Happiness” Betty Crocker
I scored a first edition 1950 copy of a Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook at an estate sale last Friday and I am having a hard time containing my excitement. I think this beautiful red binder is going to alter my life in some way (not sure yet how) and that’s why I love estate sales so much. You never ...
Cauliflower Soup: Creamy Dreamy Goodness
Cauliflower is inexpensive and looking quite good. With a two heads for five dollar bargain, it’s the ideal time to put cauliflower to good use. With such a chilly forecast coming our way, this particular head was begging to be chopped and simmered. With a silky smooth consistency and cotton white ...
Preparing for the Blizzard!
There's something so very cozy and inviting about an impending snow storm. So long as we don't lose power -- and that's a very very big so long as! To me, a snow storm is the ideal opportunity to bake and cook. And my inclination to hunker down will begin today as I will head to Suzy's house where ...
Watching Alison Make Empanadas
Inspiration comes to us in peculiar yet interesting ways sometimes, and when we least expect it. For Lou it was a jumbo jar of fig jam which he saw in his friend Sarah's kitchen. This particularly large vat of jam is what drove Lou to Costco for a jar of his own, which then spurred the idea for a ...
Turkey Meatballs for the New Year
Without a kitchen, my culinary start to the new year has been a challenge, especially as this year I am making a conscious effort to make my family's meals even healthier than last year. No matter how healthy you are, the holidays will most certainly wreak some form of havoc on the body. So as I ...
You don’t have to be Jewish to love Latkes!
You don’t have to be Jewish to Love Latkes! Hash browns, hush puppies, french fries, latkes! Find me someone who will turn away any kind of potato that’s crispy, salty and fried. You don’t have to be Jewish to make latkes. In fact they make a glamorous hors d’oeuvres at a holiday party or ...
Cranberry Sauce-Filled Muffins
Reminiscent of old fashioned jelly filled donuts, cake flour makes these muffins light and airy. The cranberry sauce is a tart surprise with every bite of these sweet treats. They are a terrific way to use up your leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving. ...
Stuffed Acorn Squash care of Pepperidge Farm Cookbook
In the forward of her delightful book, The Pepperidge Farm Cookbook, Margaret Ruskin writes: “Few things are more rewarding to a woman than that happy feeling she has when she knows that the food she has prepared with love and interest brings pleasure to her family, served in a setting more ...
Breads and more breads!
There's been a bit of quiet in my blog the last two weeks and there's good reason. I don't have a kitchen right now and you all know how serious a matter this is to me. You see, the waste pipe in my second floor bathroom leaked through my ceiling destroyed my cabinets, microwave and stove. I know. ...