Baked Beans and Brown Bread It’s Friday and I’m thinking about food. Many years ago when my family went to New England for summer vacations, we would have baked beans, and brown bread out of a can, for Saturday night dinner. I used to wonder why this wasn’t the Friday night meal since I didn’t [...]
Category: cooking
August accomplishments
Cooking … The red Bing cherries I remember from my childhood don’t seem to be around anymore. The yellow and red Rainier cherries taste much better than most red cherries I’ve had recently, but I keep being suckered, thinking that I’m just buying cherries at the wrong moment, too early or too late. Well… I [...]
My mother’s fudge recipe…
Time for the fudge recipe that was requested during Lent… My mother was allergic to everything. Hence, she did not use milk or cream in her fudge recipe. She also was a very busy woman, taking care of nine children on zero money. So no frills, like constant beating of the fudge to give it [...]
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!
Happy Birthday to anyone who is having an anniversary today! In honor of such I am providing chocolate recipes. Also, I’m busy running around with family affairs... First, Chocolate Syrup. It’s dead simple and I keep getting it wrong by not paying attention or using an alarm. 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder ~+~+~ 1 [...]
Happy Halloween
In my current novel the heroine needed a patron saint, and she ended up thinking about Saint Waltruda, whose feast day is April 9. This is also the heroine’s birthday and, though it is a Very Important Day in my own family, it was chosen in the book because I was following the liturgical calendar [...]
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