Years ago, one of our standard Christmas desserts was a walnut pumpkin cheesecake from a recipe in the long gone Houston Home &Gardens magazine. It was a bit of a production, but very good, and someday I will make a post on it. In the meantime, we had left over pumpkin puree from roasting two Read More …
We had some pie pumpkins on hand, which were used for decoration at Thanksgiving, so I decided to make pumpkin pie out of them. This could have been made with canned pumpkin. The recipe is adapted from The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion. The first step using pie pumpkins was preheating the oven to 350 degrees, Read More …
This is a version of the classic Boston baked beans, which can be made in about 3 hours elapsed time vs. the much longer time of the traditional method. The key innovation is a quick boil/simmer of the dried beans with baking soda (for alkalinity) to speed up softening the beans. This version is an Read More …
Before Thanksgiving, the supermarkets had great deals on frozen turkey. We thawed a small turkey and cut it up and used the carcass to make gravy for Thanksgiving in advance. I saw an article in Food 52 regarding a Honey Lemon Chicken in recipetineats.com which I re-purposed for turkey breast cutlets I had made from Read More …
For several years my first use of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving has been to make gumbo, based on a recipe in Justin Wilson’s Homegrown Louisiana Cookin’. Looking over my cookbook library using Eat Your Books, I have found that this is a common idea in Louisiana since there are recipes for it in several Louisiana Read More …
I spotted this recipe in the 11/24/18 issue of the Wall St. Journal. It makes a tasty dessert with a stronger lemon flavor than is usual with apple desserts. The next time I make it I will probably use a cake pan rather than a pie pan so that there is less chance of boil Read More …
This is an adaptation of a recipe in the October/November 2018 issue of Cook’s Country. In addition to eating them separately as an appetizer, I think they would be good with mashed potatoes. Meatballs 22 squares of Saltine crackers, crushed 1 cup whole milk 2 lbs. 85/15 ground beef 2 oz. Parmesan cheese, grated Read More …
Carol recently made rice krispie treats for our granddaughters using the standard recipe from the box (i.e. based on marshmallows). Shortly after, I spotted a recipe from Jamie Oliver for a more sophisticated version of rice krispie treats. I call this an “adult” recipe both because it is more sophisticated (although still very simple) and Read More …
I had some leftover Charred Salsa Verde and thought it would go well with sautéed shrimp and spaghetti, and I was right. It was sufficiently good that I made a second batch of the salsa just to eat this way. Here is how I made two servings. This would make a good, quick midweek dinner. Read More …
For this weekend’s campout, I was looking for a dessert which could be baked in a frying pan over a stove, and I remembered these fry cookies, which I first made about 5-6 years ago. I successfully made them at a Boy Scout Roundtable meeting as a hands-on program. An advantage of these cookies is Read More …