Category: Cooking
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Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread This is an annual treat for me, and I think every year I say I will make it more than once, and then there are other ideas and I forget. This time! This time I shall do it again… perhaps with apricot preserves instead of the applesauce, but I must remember to reduce the…
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It’s Complicated
This bread started out with two ideas. Firstly, I had a couple of very ripe bananas and needed to use them up. Secondly, I had bought new yeast and wanted to test it. I buy yeast by the pound, and store most of it in the freezer, until it’s used up. Only… when we moved,…
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Antelope Horns: A Cookie
These are not Gazelle Horns, the North African cookie/pastry. I wanted to make something a little different, and use up some dates and tahini I had on hand. So! these are the Texas variation on those delicacies, created for a friend with a nut allergy to be able to enjoy them. They aren’t a sweet…
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Chicken Salad: Maybe a Recipe
Two things. One, I just searched my blog for a recipe for chicken salad, because I don’t remember ever making it before. I didn’t grow up with it, as my Dad won’t eat mayonnaise in any form. We did occasionally have tuna salad when he wasn’t home, so I’m not sure why chicken salad wasn’t…
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Blushing Jenny: Cocktail
In my playful pursuit of cocktail recipes, I’m making things up out of my liquor cabinet, and sometimes, you just have to pick a place to start. Tonight, that was Fresca. I’m really fond of grapefruit (and citrus in general) so I also have a grapefruit liqueur, Pamplemousse Rose. Which is like syrup, but has…
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The Custard Formula
I had to use up some milk. My son has a very sensitive nose, and if the milk has an odor, he won’t drink it. The First Reader and I look at each other and shrug, because it’s fine… still. We both grew up with fresh, raw milk straight from the source, and trust me…
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The Brioche Formula
The First Reader and I were sitting and chatting the other day, planning for a Sunday morning breakfast with friends, which we would host. He wanted to serve pork chops and French toast. Oh, I said, I’ll make up brioche for the French toast, it’s so nice for it. Which led to to us talking…
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Shrimp and Grits: First Attempt
This is going to be a series, as I am attempting to learn how to make this delicious and deceptively simple dish. This is my first attempt, based on doing the grits in the instantPot for speed and ease, and a creamy sauce for the shrimp which is all wrong while being oh, so right.…
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Carrot Cake
This recipe is a variant, loosely, on the Splendid Spice Cake recipe. With… changes. For one thing, I reduced the overall sugar just a touch. And I took the liqud back a bit, to allow for the addition of carrots. I customized the spice blend to favor carrot’s innate flavors, which included the addition of…
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Coconut Cream Pie
The First Reader loves coconut cream pies, and over the years I’ve blogged the recipe I usually make for him, which calls for fortifying a boxed cook-and-serve pudding. It’s an easy way to do it, but a few years ago it started to be hard to find the pudding mixes. I would buy half a…
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Saturday Supper
Food is love. When we moved to Texas a couple of years ago now, part of the motivation was coming into a community of friends that felt like family and were close enough to sit down and eat with from time to time. The group of folks who would become known as the North Texas…
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Spice Coffee Cake
One of the many things I like to do is pamper my First Reader. When we had an unexpected morning, just the two of us, and time to do things, I asked him what he’d like for breakfast. Waffles, pancakes, biscuits? I offered. Coffee cake? Oh, yes! His eyes lit up. What about the coffee…