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My Aunt’s Red Velvet Cake

By Eliot, on August 2nd, 2010%

The big Red Scare! Red Velvet Cake Recipe . . . → Read More: My Aunt’s Red Velvet Cake

Bruschetta: the Heart of Summer

By Eliot, on July 31st, 2010%

Bruschetta recipe–easy and fresh. . . . → Read More: Bruschetta: the Heart of Summer

My Great Aunt Jaunita was the loveliest and kindest person. I remember her bringing out these cookies in a paper towel-lined tin container and passing them out to guests. Mom and I raved about them and had to have the recipe. This cookie is so light and delicate and GOOD.

Amish Sugar Cookies (from . . . → Read More: Aunt Jaunita’s Cookies

My love affair with daily print

By Eliot, on July 26th, 2010%

Spicy Okra with Summer Vegetables Recipe . . . → Read More: My love affair with daily print

Zinnias

By Eliot, on July 20th, 2010%

A favorite pastime of mine is looking though my prized family photo albums at sepia tinted pictures of my ancestry. This trait comes from my grandma. My grandma and I would look through her photo albums and she would narrate everyone’s stories for me. (I know we did this a lot in the summer when . . . → Read More: Zinnias

My Favorite Uncle’s Pickles

By Eliot, on July 12th, 2010%

An easy, spicy pickle recipe . . . → Read More: My Favorite Uncle’s Pickles

Grandmother’s Ice Cream

By Eliot, on July 4th, 2010%

I have a small ice cream maker, the kind that has the frozen bowl. It works really well and makes creating new gelatos, sherbets and ice cream super easy.

My grandmother had a large, hidously loud ice cream maker. I remember her making this ice cream, packing the ice around the container, adding freezer salt, . . . → Read More: Grandmother’s Ice Cream

Grandma–again with the mashed potatoes?

By Eliot, on July 1st, 2010%

I was perusing through the family recipe book (compiled from all the recipe cards, newspaper clippings, and envelopes with scribbled recipes that we found stashed away in her house), and I came across her “Everlasting Bread Recipe.” Again, just like in her potato salad recipe, she used leftover mashed potatoes. You might think the family . . . → Read More: Grandma–again with the mashed potatoes?

Cake Show Pound Cake

By Eliot, on June 25th, 2010%

As I believe I have mentioned before, it is my mother who first got me started in competitive cooking.

At the age of nine, I found myself old enough to join 4-H, which meant that besides making the obligatory triangular fringed poncho for a sewing project, I could now enter the Cake Show.

Mom always . . . → Read More: Cake Show Pound Cake

Grandma’s Mashed Potatoes

By Eliot, on June 23rd, 2010%

One of my grandmothers did make potato salad out of leftover mashed potatoes, but my other grandmother had the making of mashed potatoes down to an art. I remember them being so creamy that they almost poured off the spoon, full of butter, cream and lots of pepper. There was no making potato salad out . . . → Read More: Grandma’s Mashed Potatoes

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