Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
The cafeteria at my college dorm had a killer dessert counter. Even for ice cream sundae day, they had mounds of my favorite candy bar of all time–Goldenberg Peanut Chews–as a topping choice along with true blue hot fudge and a whole host of other unhealthy but tasty goodies. One “everything but the kitchen sink” […]
All-in-one pot dishes bring back not-so-lovely memories from my childhood of picking at stringy, dry meat slathered in a piquant sauce. Yes, meat can be dry and nearly inedible even if swimming in sauce–or at least that is how I looked at it when my three-foot-high-self was forced to deal with eating some sort of […]
My kids had a rough week – tests at school and grueling after-school activities – so I wanted to give them a nice treat. I wanted to bake them oatmeal raisin cookies, thinking that it’s the healthier alternative to chocolate chip cookies (ha, ha). Lo and behold, I’m out of raisins. Plain oatmeal cookies would […]
My daughter had an interesting history project learning about the Polish hussars. They were an elite regimen in the Polish cavalry in the Crown Kingdom of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was actually exiled Hungarians who introduced hussar horsemen to the Polish military. At first, the regiments were small and only made up […]
Spring is just around the corner. Cut tulips are popping up in the flower sections of grocery stores. Once last shot to make pumpkin bread before I get strange looks. I suppose the end of fall should mark the end of pumpkin bread, but that rule doesn’t work in my house, especially if I’m baking […]