"It's all about the recipe!"
Not every published recipe works, and that’s a pet peeve of mine. Recently my Cookbook Club received the galley proofs for a soon-to-be-published cookbook. We cooked 19 recipes from the cookbook. Not one worked as written! Not one! Quantities didn’t…
Finally! A Pork Pie recipe that is pretty darn good and not that hard to produce! My Dad, a traditional Yorkshire-man, loved pork pies. I really, really wish he were still here to taste my version. To my mind, this…
It’s citrusy, and it’s salty, and it’s creamy, and it’s tangy, and it’s delicious. Ever heard of Atlantic Beach Lemon Pie? I hadn’t either. I guess this pie had been a big deal back in North Carolina in the 50s (Crook’s…
Google “Back of the Box” recipes and you’ll get lists such as The 10 Best Back-of-the-box Recipes from Epicurious, or Buzz Feed or The Daily Meal. It’s never the 20 best back-of-the-box recipes or 100 best back-of-the-box recipes. Nope. Just…
This recipe is from one of America’s Test Kitchen 30-minute Meals cookbooks. The meatballs, although very simple with a very plain list of ingredients, are quite tasty. I wanted to up the curry powder just a bit, but my offspring vetoed that…
I had never, ever heard of kipferls before. Then, in two weeks they came into my life twice! First, my friend Priscilla made some in the Culinary School Pastry Arts program she is enrolled in. I didn’t try one because…
Once a year I host a book club meeting at my house, and my night was last night. The book was “The Book Thief” so the theme was German food. Thanks to input from the internet, I decided to make a…
I am so excited about this recipe! It’s a paradigm shift recipe! It’s not a recipe in the true sense of the word, it’s more of a road map to a particular destination. A road map allows for more flexibility…
