Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
Growing up, if a dessert had nuts in it, I stayed clear away. A brownie or chocolate chip cookie with nuts was the ultimate disappointment. The nuts took space away from the chocolate, left a bitter aftertaste, got in between my teeth, weren’t soft and gooey–the complaints were many. As an adult, I still prefer […]
I have a recurring fascination with pumpkin. Some varieties can grow to be huge. And the smallest varieties are just plain cute. I have been to local fall festivals where tons of post-Halloween pumpkins that have been thrown away get to participate in the annual “pumpkin drop” and “pumpkin toss.” Statistics from the USDA show that in […]
I have tried to make successful corn bread several times throughout my life. Most of the time, this apparently easy bread just doesn’t turn out for me. For the past few Thanksgivings, I didn’t bother making it to avoid the embarrassment. Everywhere I read though, corn bread is supposed to be so easy that you […]
It was a week after I baked my Polish Plum Cake, and the kids started asking for more. I only had a handful of large plums remaining from our Costco stockpile–didn’t seem to be enough to bake another cake. I was curious to see whether there is a German equivalent, given that Poland and Germany are […]
Can you take a guess what this is a photo of? A floating ring coming straight at you? It’s actually the top of an opened bottle of sparkling, non-alcoholic cider. Strange but true. Here is a photo of the photographer himself (my teenage son).