Questions, questions, questions – World Sharing as Christmas nears What is your favorite type of cookie (they’re called biscuits in Europe I believe)? Plain sugar cookies. Very crisp, covered with crystalized sugar. It’s hard to find them. I think I’ll… Read More ›
Owen was home for the day and decided it was a good day to learn to bake bread. I have a lot of old cookbooks from as early as 1899 (it is a reprint of the book that eventually became… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
