I have fallen in love with cooking again. I have met Alice Waters. I had heard of her. I have spotted cookbooks among the collections that line the bookstore shelves. I had heard her name spoken within conversations. Her name always spoken with respect, awe and interest. But I rarely have time to cook anymore. I steam and eat and…
Cooking
Flour Sack Dishtowels
I have searched for towels. I have tried waffle to linen and back again. I have washed, tested, soiled, played in mud and quite frankly nothing impressed me very much. I always ended up back to paper towels. Some towels look great hanging in the kitchen. And in the beginning, I had thought to buy a towel that we could…
Figgy Pudding
Steamed Pudding dates back to the early 16th Century. It is a pudding made of fruit and nuts and is steamed in a molded pan that gives shape to its presentation. It is sliced like cake and served warm with whipped cream, ice cream or a warm glaze. The key to steamed pudding is that the batter goes into a…
Gardening Series #11, End of the Season
At summers end, the frost comes and with it are taken the leaves and stems. They lay wilted and done. Now without their fullness creating covers and shade you will find what lies beneath and for me, I find gourds. Now easy to pick, easy to see, I step about the wilting stems and gather a basket of gourds that…
Italian Meatloaf
My Meatloaf recipe is worth sharing, especially if you are an Oatmeal lover. In a bowl, mix up a finely chopped large sweet onion, 3/4 cup Pasta sauce, 3/4 cup Oats, 2 beaten eggs, 4 finely chopped cloves garlic. Mix lightly. Then add 1 and a 1/2 pound hamburg. Mix it together with your hands and pat into a loaf…
Tomatoes
When gardeners start the garden year, they have expectations of what they will grow and what the vegetables will look like when they harvest them. If you haven’t gardened before, the thing to know is that the plants, like us, have life spans. Meaning, they have a baby stage, a mid stage, a full grown stage and then start passing…
2 Ingredient Chocolate Torte
I discovered that 2 ingredient recipes are not always simple to make. The term, Two ingredients, does not mean; quick to make, time saving, or any other term. It only refers to the fact that there are only 2 ingredients. The amount of labor has its own meaning. I printed out this recipe from Kirby’s Cravings, a great food blog…
2 Ingredient Lemon Mousse
Fascinated by 2 Ingredient recipes, I had recently made the Lemon Bars and was impressed. So once again needing a contribution to a community dinner, I forged ahead and attempted the very easy, time saving, 2-ingredient Lemon Mousse. Whipped Cream and Lemon Curd was all that was required. As for measurements, all I needed to know was to work with…
Lemon Comstock Cake
A two ingredient dessert? Really? My ancestral frugal, make-due-with-what-you-have grandmothers would have loved this! But then there was the next generation of cooks, those iconic 1950’s women who worked to win baking contests and outdo the neighbors. Then there’s my generation, women who gave themselves permission to go buy a cake from a large food chain….and today we buy them…