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 ›
Recipes
SHARE MY WORLD AS OCTOBER MOVES ALONG
Share Your World 10-5-2020 How can it be the tenth month of the year? What happened? Oh, right. Everything happened. This was the year that was in every sense of the world. Whatever became of “National Brotherhood Week?” It was a… Read More ›
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 ›
IS IT WORTH COOKING? – RICH PASCHALL
Worth It – Food, a review, by Rich Paschall Last year I reviewed the incredibly popular Buzz Feed and YouTube series Worth It. The show finds its popular hosts, millennials Steven Lim and Andrew Ilnyckyj, traveling to three different restaurants… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
