You know it’s a good cookbook when you keep your library copy at home, accruing late fines, just so you can make a few recipes. And yes, I did buy my own copy of The Homesick Texan Cookbook and I am eagerly awaiting its arrival. Using the library copy, I made two recipes: Austin-style black [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cooking’
The Homesick Texan’s Green Chile Posole with Black Beans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's books, cookbooks, cooking, eating, food writing, housework, locavore, United States on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Comfortable (a recipe for lentil shepherd’s pie)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cookbooks, cooking, eating, food writing, vegetarianism on May 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Once I had recovered sufficiently from my flu last week to think of cooking, I wanted to try out something I’d read about, coincidentally, in both Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe and in that unexpected free issue of Cook’s Country Magazine: making mashed potatoes with an electric mixer. When I was learning to cook, I [...]
Gentle, with jellied salad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, cookbooks, cooking, eating, food writing, gardening, humour, United States, Wisconsin on April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On a family visit to Olbrich Botanical Gardens this past weekend, I picked up Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe by Susan Sanvidge, Diane Sanvidge Seckar, Jean Sanvidge Wouters, and Julie Sanvidge Florence. Yes, another cookbook.As I told my students today, some people read mystery novels or romances when they’re busy at work; I read cookbooks. [...]
Baking Makes Joy: part 2 (adding the fruit to your flan)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, cookbooks, cooking, eating, food writing, German books on April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Since this seems to have become, temporarily, a baking blog, here’s what to do with your peach flan once you’ve baked the dough. Incidentally, this cake has many great features: you can fill it with any kind of fresh fruit, as long as it’s soft enough – besides peaches, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and redcurrants all [...]
An evening of tightwaddery, or, working the second shift
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cooking, housework, money on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Following a happy (and slightly obsessive) week of reading Amy Dacyzyn’s Complete Tightwad Gazette, I decided to have an evening of tightwaddery. As you will be able to see from the retro nature of my kitchen decor, I don’t live high off the hog by any means, but I figured it would be fun to [...]
