Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
On my continual quest for healthy, potluck-worthy chicken dishes, I stumbled upon this slow cooker/crock pot dish. It’s accented with fall/winter-worthy cranberries and apples. As with all of the slow cooker main courses I’ve come across, it is something like a stew. Meaning—the chicken pieces are sort of flaky and there is quite a bit […]
If you are regularly a cookie/cake home baker but have an adventurous spirit, try making custard-filled cream puffs! They are an elegant dessert to take to a party potluck and really not so bad in terms of difficulty. They just need a chunk of your time and attention. See my post on making the basic […]
According to food writer, Horst Scharfenberg in his classic cookbook, The Cuisines of Germany, the Beef Hot Pot, or “Pfeffer-Potthast,” is a traditional dish from Westphalia in Germany. It hails back a few centuries ago–to the thirteenth century, but who’s counting. “Potthast” means flesh pot. The English meaning kind of puts the dish in a […]
Apple pie is touted as a traditional American dessert–as traditional as it gets. But America isn’t the only place in the world where the apple is the star component of a delightful traditional dessert. Immediately comes to mind French tarte tartin with its caramel coated apples or Polish szarlotka with it’s crumbly, buttery pastry crust. […]
The history behind American Christmas traditions is an eye opener. So far, I’ve learned that in Colonial America at least, Christmas celebrations were even punishable if you lived in Puritan New England. Traditions in general varied from colony to colony, depending on who settled there. They were definitely not the colorful, over the top celebrations […]