Category: Recipes
Caciocavera
Caprese Eggplant Bake Recipe
Grandmother’s Ice Cream
I have a small ice cream maker, the kind that has the frozen bowl. It works really well and makes creating new gelatos, sherbets and ice cream super easy. My grandmother had a large, hidously loud ice cream maker. I remember her making this ice cream, packing the ice around the container, adding freezer salt,…
Grandma–again with the mashed potatoes?
I was perusing through the family recipe book (compiled from all the recipe cards, newspaper clippings, and envelopes with scribbled recipes that we found stashed away in her house), and I came across her “Everlasting Bread Recipe.” Again, just like in her potato salad recipe, she used leftover mashed potatoes. You might think the family…
Gelato with New Mexico Strawberries
Since I was lucky enough to buy fresh strawberries at the Dixon Farmers’ Market, I tried another new strawberry gelato recipe. I think this recipe will serve as my base for gelato from now on. I took the Pomegranate/Green Tea recipe (see June 11’s post) and just added the pureed strawberries. It was quite good, if I…
Cake Show Pound Cake
As I believe I have mentioned before, it is my mother who first got me started in competitive cooking. At the age of nine, I found myself old enough to join 4-H, which meant that besides making the obligatory triangular fringed poncho for a sewing project, I could now enter the Cake Show. Mom always…
Grandma’s Mashed Potatoes
One of my grandmothers did make potato salad out of leftover mashed potatoes, but my other grandmother had the making of mashed potatoes down to an art. I remember them being so creamy that they almost poured off the spoon, full of butter, cream and lots of pepper. There was no making potato salad out…
Potato Salad and You
I just started reading Molly Wizenberg’s A Homemade Life. (I find myself only reading foodie books now—in fact I just got Anthony Bourdain’s new one, Jay Rayner’s The Man Who Ate the World, and my very own copy of Reichl’s Garlic and Sapphires delivered to my door. Thanks, Amazon! ) In one of Wizenberg’s chapters, she…
The squash is going nuts!
Vegetarian Meal: Squash Fajitas with Goat Cheese
And I am still using carrots…
I blanched as much as I could and sliced until I got a little dangerous. (See previous “Carrot” post.) After I put about 8 quarts in the freezer (plus the dilled carrots), I just threw what was left in the fridge. I just grated enough for this recipe (4 cups) and I still have some…
Eating In Locally–Fried Eggs with Soy Sauce
I am a Top Chef addict and was so disappointed that Susan Feniger went home. (Don’t spoil my fun, I have them all DVRed and am just watching them now. I am a little behind, BUT I don’t want to know the winner yet.) What an earth mother and life lover she is! I just tried her…