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 ‘eating’
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 [...]
Baking makes Joy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, cookbooks, eating, German books on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In honour of Easter Sunday, I thought I’d post a recipe that is traditional in my family for Easter, peach flan, from a classic German cookbook. This recipe is not actually traditional for Easter in Germany: I think my mother just started making it at Easter because it is easy, uses canned fruit available anytime, [...]
Race Cars, but no books – more national libraries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cookbooks, eating, libraries, travel on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On a sunny, blisteringly hot Sunday in July, we stopped by the National Széchényi Library, which is in the castle district of Buda. We had expected it to be closed, but we had no idea that it would be overrun by a street fair celebrating the Hungarian Grand Prix. So no books, but we got [...]
