While looking up apples on the Internet earlier this week I came across a discussion of mealy apples, and why it’s worth cooking with them. I was fascinated and let the information percolate for a bit, but here is the deal. Being living matter, apples are made up of cells. And being plants they have [...]
When I was little my mom made applesauce out of Granny Smith apples. She occasionally made pie, probably also Granny Smith, but I was ignorant and didn’t like apple pie so I didn’t pay attention. Cherry pie was a different story and I lobbied hard for it. I also suspect that no-one was too worried [...]
I mentioned a three bean/baked bean recipe last Friday**, and can now report that I tried a version of it, using canned butter beans and navy beans as the second and third beans. I like the spices that I actually used, to wit, bacon, dry mustard, BBQ sauce (the recipe uses ketchup), brown sugar, cider [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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