Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
I found out just over a year ago that I have relatives in Australia. Woo hoo! My aunt posted on Facebook a copy of the recipe, “1914 Anzac Biscuits.” I had to try it out. There is a lot of history behind these biscuits, which immediately drew me in. ANZAC stands for the “Australian and […]
For a kid-friendly potluck reception, I signed up to bring cake. How I came to this choice was not a straight path. The occasion was a potluck reception after a piano recital where my kids were performing. In thinking about what I could bring for the reception, I put myself in the kids’ shoes. All […]
To make a lemon layer cake special, lemon curd spread in between the layers as a filling or mixed into the frosting will do wonders. It is a lemon, butter, sugar, and egg combination that is cooked until thickened, just like a custard. Lemon curd comes to us from British cuisine, dating back to somewhere […]
My daughter requested chicken fajitas for her birthday dinner, and so I scrambled. The last time I made fajitas–steak fajitas for my son’s birthday dinner–I made a marinade for the beef that didn’t quite hit the mark (no lime or cumin!). Let’s just say the dish didn’t taste like beef fajitas. This time, I didn’t […]
A while back, I shared my family’s Polish plain honey cake recipe. It’s a delicious yet simple honey cake that I serve each year for Christmas and New Year’s. It seems to be atypical as far as honey cake recipes go because there are no spices added to it. More recently, I’ve found that a […]