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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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 [...]
Blog mission creep++
Last summer Tony and I joined a CSA. This was not some branch of the Confederate States of America. It isn’t even Crop Share Associations, which is where my mind always goes. CSA means Community Supported Agriculture. In practice it IS crop sharing, where you pay a farmer so much per week for so many [...]
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