Cooking

Alice Waters

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….

Figgy Pudding
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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…

Italian Meatloaf

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…

Tomatoes
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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…

2 Ingredient Lemon Mousse

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…

Lemon Comstock Cake
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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…