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Category: Food
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The Spice Basket
I came home yesterday to find my son with my basket of spices on the counter. Those who read the Case of the Pink Stain will understand why this gave me an uneasy feeling. He had a notebook, and was writing busily in it. “Mama! Come tell me what these are.” He pulled me over…
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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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It’s Dark, Let’s get Fat
Last night after my bedtime as I was standing barefoot in the kitchen eating kippered herring from the can, I was thinking about the complex nature of our relationship with food. I’d decided to eat a snack because I’d been lying in bed trying to sleep, with my stomach growling. I’d decided to eat the kippers because…
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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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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: 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…
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Nom Pum: Coconut Waffles
I’ve been working on making Pho from scratch, and a friend with a terrible sense of humor wanted to know if I would also be making Phi, Phee, and Phum. So just to amuse myself, I looked up recipes for them. And they exist, at least in some form. The recipe for Phum (Pum) caught…
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Why Soup?
Friday’s post about sinuses, and my conversations with coworkers about soup preferences when sick got me thinking. Why soup? When I’m sick, I tend to want chicken soup, even if it is such a cliche. When I’m stuffed up and can barely breathe, I want spicy soup, so my sinuses can be flushed out and…
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No-Bake Mango Cheesecake
So this is an extrapolated recipe from Shadowdancer Duskstar, who put it in the comments of a recent post. The Ginja Ninja loves mango, and as we took a trip to Jungle Jim’s and I was able to score a few nice ripe ones (although they were Brazilian, I’m not sure what the difference would…
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Vintage Kitchen: Muster Gingerbread
This was a somewhat challenging recipe to make, as you’ll see that there are no directions for making the cookies, just a list of ingredients. What I decided that I would do was to mix the ingredients up, and cook them as if I were making one of my other gingerbread recipes. One thing I…
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Vintage Kitchen: Bread Pudding
I grew up eating bread pudding. It’s a cheap, filling breakfast (or dessert, more on that later) that uses up things we usually had in abundance: bread, milk, and eggs. Since we were milking goats, kept chickens, and making homemade bread which stales if you look at it funny, it was a great option. Later…
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Blue-Blueberry Lemon Cake
So the Junior Mad Scientist and the Ginja Ninja had a combination birthday celebration and going-away party. They requested cake, and ice cream. Sounds perfectly normal, right? This is the Writer’s House. We do a lot of things around here. Normal is rarely one of them. I got a text. “We want a blue cake.…