I had a nice set of posts planned for this evening until the wind came up and the lights went out. We got a lot of wind which, apparently brought down some trees and although it is usually dark here… Read More ›
baking
LOKSHEN KUGEL (NOODLE PUDDING) FOR DINNER, DESSERT, SNACKS, WHATEVER
I have an abscess. It’s on the gum above what the dentist calls my upper number two tooth. The number one on that side was already pulled years ago. That was the one where they couldn’t even do a root… Read More ›
BANANA BREAD ANYONE?
We had three bananas in the kitchen. Not quite as ripe as I like them for making banana bread, but there were three. I feared if I didn’t use them, there would be one missing in short order. So, this… Read More ›
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #10: MY FAVORITE FOOD My favorite food is anything that someone else prepared — and tastes good — and which someone other than me will clean up when the meal is finished. In the end,… Read More ›
GINGERBREAD IN THE MORNING
I felt like baking this morning. I usually don’t care about anything but coffee, but this morning, after taking 130 pictures of birds and squirrels, I wanted something warm and sweet with my coffee. So I made gingerbread, which is… Read More ›
ABOUT THOSE SOFT PRETZELS – Marilyn Armstrong
This recipe turns up the kind of warm, soft pretzels you pay big bucks for at the mall. My biggest problem with them is getting them formed into a real pretzel shape. However, you can also twist them and that’s… Read More ›
HOW TO SPEND A DAY NOT BUYING AN OVEN – Marilyn Armstrong
I spent most of yesterday not buying a new countertop oven. Probably 7 or 8 hours were consumed looking at and deciding to buy it, then deciding it was too expensive, too cheap, not big enough, too many options I… Read More ›
SPICY GINGERBREAD – Marilyn Armstrong
It’s a sweet bread, not the hard stuff (which is really baked masonry) typically used to build houses, or the dough used for gingerbread people. This is more of a cake, but not as sweet. It’s the one I make… Read More ›
NEW PRINTING OF AN 1896 COOKBOOK – Marilyn Armstrong
FANNIE FARMER 1896 COOK BOOK: The Boston Cooking School The predecessor to all the great Fannie Farmer cookbooks that would be printed over the next 50 years, this was the one I really wanted most. It was out of print… Read More ›
LIFE’S A MESS SO LET’S MAKE BREAD – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
Fandango’s Provocative Question #72 From Fandango: Things are pretty screwed up right now. The world is still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. The United States now has had almost 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 108,000 have died due… Read More ›
ORDERLY – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
After my reasonably successful pretzels, I decided to start baking more. I promise not to get totally crazy, but a few incredible loaves of whole wheat bread might go a long way to fixing what ails me. There’s something wonderfully… Read More ›
MAKING PRETZELS – Marilyn Armstrong
We like pretzels. One of the things I really miss is fresh warm pretzels, the kind we used to buy at the old mall in Auburn. I don’t know if the mall is open or will open. It was barely… Read More ›
