Last night I had a craving for potato leek soup – but – was out of leeks. So I made a few adjustments and somehow cooked the food of the gods with what was in the cupboard. This is not a white soup – it will be brown with shredded red potato skins. Process: Cut ...
Yum! Made for Mother’s Day. A homemade sponge cake topped with fresh strawberries – mostly cut, some crushed, and sugar to taste. Though today’s shortcakes are made of a biscuit or sponge cake base, earlier American recipes called for pieces of pie crust to be used. This variety was particularly popular in the American South. ...
Halloween’s over, so we won’t be talking too much about the process of creating a Jack-o-Lantern. Now it’s time to plan our annual Thanksgiving feast – and what is just as symbolic of Thanksgiving as a turkey? Pumpkin Pie, that’s what. Pumpkins are a variety of winter squash native to the Americas. They can be ...
Creepy, crawly, prickly, ickky, nasty, inflammatory things that can get you! Worms for dessert? Ah! But they’re gummi worms! Looks can be deceiving! Our fantasy dessert is topped off with a spot of whipped cream. Gummi candies originated in Germany in the 1920′s and are made with sugars, starch and gelatin. Flavoring, citric acid and ...
Recently my dentist told me that the best food for teeth was cheese. Cheese is rich in calcium that builds strong tooth enamel and bones. So I decided to make a kid friendly dish with cheese and sneak in some vegetables too. An early mention of macaroni is from medieval Italian sources but it is ...
The power of garlic has always been associated with both good and evil. Strings of garlic are always seen in traditional vampire movies as folklore considers garlic a powerful ward against vampires demons and werewolves. By contrast – modern vampires consider garlic to be merely in bad taste! From the pages of our namesake Julia ...
Not quite a dessert but almost as yummy – this dish is sweet and sour glazed onions Although its origins are often attributed to the Hunan province of China many places in China use a version of sweet and sour sauce as a dipping sauce or topping for fish and meat. In some regions of ...
This dip is usually too thick to be considered a sauce – but no California party is complete without it. The name guacamole itself comes from an Aztec dialect and the dish originated with the Aztecs in Mexico as early as the 1500′s. The Spanish conquistadors liked it so much that they took the dish ...
Apples and salads are a match made in… …well, a very nice place indeed. Nice crisp slices on the side, diced up morsels mixed with langostino, walnuts, garden peas, bell pepper, celery, lettuce and cherry tomatoes. Fallen apples are one of the few fruits that can be eaten as a windfall crop without washing – ...
What’s the difference between a knish, a cornish pasty, a calzone, a potsticker and a pirozhki? Not that much – except the cultural context. All have a filling wrapped in dough that is baked, grilled or fried. This is a simple traditional potato knish. The filling is made with boiled mashed potatoes and seasonings. The ...
