In between the sourness of dill pickles and the excessively sweet pickles that go by that name, “bread and butter pickles’ are a refreshing middle ground. They are also very easy to make and often have the added flavor of onions and/or green peppers added to the cucumbers, a bonus for those of us who…
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Lots of (Yellow) Cornbread Options
There is something about a cold winter night and a pot of chili that really calls for good, warm cornbread–the “sweet” yellow cornbread style that I grew up with–sorry my southern friends, but all the choices today will go in this direction. With a family game night planned and vegetarian chili on the menu, this…
Dill Pickle Juice Rye Bread
This old-fashioned recipe calls for “potato water,” an ingredient that was likely pretty common back in the meat and potatoes days of the early and mid-20th century. However, unless you are making this after a large family gathering (Thanksgiving or Christmas for example), you might not be boiling potatoes for mashing or otherwise cooking them…
Yeast-raised Spinach Bread
Just in time for St. Patrrick’s day, a bread I made last year for my grandson’s birthday dinner. He had asked for his favorite take out, from Pho Thai, a Vietnamese restaurant here in town that has wonderful pho and lots of other dishes we all love. That was the main part of the meal,…
Million Dollar Cookies
When I was a child, this was a fairly common cookie at our house. As we stirred up this dough and rolled it into long snakes, I always asked my mother why they were called “Million Dollar” cookies, and she always told me she didn’t know, they just were. Maybe because of their coin shape?…
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding
Here’s an old, old recipe that happens to be gluten free, from way back before people even knew they might want to make such a thing. In fact, our family has a story almost a hundred years old, in which chocolate pudding played a key role. In the winter of 1918, during the great “Spanish…
Chocolate Apple Cake with Fudge Topping
Hungry for chocolate even in this season of apples and pumpkins and lots of rich sugar cookies? Ready for a different dessert after all those Thanksgiving pies? Here’s a quick and easy cake that will satisfy your chocolate sweet tooth that you could almost pretend to be healthy–something we all need after the turkey day…
“Royal Raspberry Cake”
As those who know me can attest, my style of cooking has always been pretty freeform, with approximate measures–even when baking–more common than carefully measured out ingredients. Having this blog has been a good challenge for me, because I try never to post anything that I have not carefully measured and tried at least a…
Peach Kuchen
Growing up, I was exposed to very little “German” food, with sauerkraut probably the only that fit that description. So when I married into a family that had maintained their German traditions and recipes, I began to learn about things like “tortes” and “kuchens”–and even bratwurst which at that time were not widely known or…
Nectarine Quinoa Salad
This is the season when some of my favorite fruits–peaches, nectarines, and plums–begin to appear in the stores, and this year there have been some wonderful deals–signs of a good harvest? Whatever the reason, I am taking advantage and finding all kinds of good ways to use these. Now is the time for slicing them…