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Category: Cooking
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Talking about Food
I have to wonder, sometimes, why it seems like I talk about food and cooking so often. From a conversation with a coworker about making sausage (which segued into how much we love our Kitchenaid mixers), to a moment spent teaching a millennial how to make vanilla extract… Yes, that last was standing at the…
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Kilo Cake
So I mentioned at work that I was thinking about baking this weekend. After two weeks of working straight through, I was in the mood to bake, it’s how I relax. Everyone’s tired and stressed. So they perked up, and somehow pound cake was mentioned. I can make that! I said, thinking that it was…
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Sunday Morning Frittata
It’s been a while since I made Sunday morning breakfast special. It’s also been a while since I blogged about food. This morning, with no plans in sight for the day (yay!) I decided I was going to do this thing. Since the kitchen also needed cleaning, I did that and kept the breakfast spread…
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Purple Ube Roll
This is a different take on fictional cooking, and it’s not me doing the baking – I just provided photography and moral support! The Ginja Ninja really wanted to make this cake, which comes from a TV show called Steven Universe, and the episode “The Good Lars.” First, we had to find the ube. She…
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Vintage Kitchen: Scalloped Potatoes
When I picked this recipe, it was because I wanted a side dish to have with dinner, I had potatoes on hand, and I have fond memories of my Dad’s versions of Potatoes au Gratin (which he has won prizes with. But that’s another post, if he’ll let me use his recipe). This… is not…
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Why Read Cookbooks?
As a companion piece for my post today at the Mad Genius Club, where I talk about audience for writers, and give the results for a very interesting survey I conducted of readers, I decided that I’d talk here about why you should read cookbooks. Not just to use them for looking up recipes, but…
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Parsnip Walnut Date Muffins
So the other day I bought parsnips. I love parsnips. Like carrots, they can be used in many ways, and for a root vegetable, are very versatile. I got enough to make parsnips three ways: I used some in beef stew, I’ll roast some, and I put one big one into this quick-and-easy recipe. Muffins…
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Gingerbread Dragon Mayhem
So a while back I was shopping for a bundt cake pan. It seems like such an innocent thing to do, yes? Well, it turns out there are a LOT of bundt pan designs, including some adorable bundlette pans that are, well, let’s just say I could easily blow all my kitchen budget and then…
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Decadent Pumpkin Bread
It took me a while to name this recipe. Pumpkin bread doesn’t adequately cover what I’ve done here. I didn’t think that ultimate supreme tasty rich or the First Reader’s contribution of WalCranPumpkin Cheesecake Bread! was quite right, either. I took a fairly basic quickbread recipe and made it into something much more… no, refined isn’t…
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Vintage Kitchen: Lemon Pie
My grandmother posted a photo of a lemon pie she’d made, and I saw it and thought ‘that looks good! I should get the recipe.’ And then this morning while I was standing in the kitchen talking about the menu planning with the First Reader, I picked up one of the antique cookbooks and looked…
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Organoleptic
Pertaining to the senses: smell, touch, taste… It’s not a word you’ll see in general reading, but I was reading a paper on the cyanide content of fruit seeds, and they were discussing what those seeds bring to the table as they are used in cooking and making liqueurs. The organoleptic qualities of the seeds…
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Vintage Kitchen: Gingerbread Banana Shortcake
This recipe was submitted by a reader, Peter Budd, or rather he sent me a pdf booklet of his great-grandmother’s family recipes. I scrolled through it, seeing several options, and then decided that given the season, this one was a good choice. That, and it’s not a flavor combination I would have chosen on my…