recipes
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Gramma’s Corn Relish
This recipe is delicious and easy to make!… Our grammy could make just about anything and make it very well. She was a farm wife in the days of cook stoves and large gardens and for one thing she was famous for her angel food cakes. She even had a little home-based business selling the Continue reading
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Pasta Salad a la Benôit
This is as easy as the day is long… I always marveled at my grandmother’s and mother’s recipes. A lot of times you would pick one up, for example my grandmother’s corn relish recipe, and it didn’t have amounts for each ingredient. It would say “corn, bell peppers, celery, apple cider vinegar, etc. and you Continue reading
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Another Dessert with a Weird Name
It might be a grunt or a slump or a fungy… The origins of the dessert known as a “grunt” are unclear. Some claim it was first made by early colonial settlers as an adaptation of British pudding using local ingredients, while others claim it originated as a form of Acadian “forage food.” It is Continue reading
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Apricot Cherry Slump
Another Classic Recipe like Mother Might Have Made… The name implies some kind of sadness don’t you think? Couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is this is a very happy and monumentally easy dessert. Something like mom or grandma might have made. I got a bee in my bonnet when the Chez Panisse Continue reading
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The Absolute Best Blueberry Cobbler
I got this recipe from somewhere and the somewhere said it was from Chez Panisse…… which is that famous restaurant on Shattuck in North Berkeley that I have eaten at a handful of times in the past. We always ate upstairs in the café and never in the first-floor part where it’s prix fixe. Upstairs Continue reading
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Sardinian Health Food
Pasta with green beans and more…. I recently read a book by Valter Longo called “The Longevity Diet”. I decided that it really needs to be entitled The Longevity Lifestyle because he doesn’t talk only about food but also how to conduct your life to make the most of it and the healthy length of Continue reading
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Gramma’s Quick “Mayonnaise”
For when you’ve run out of store-bought mayonnaise or want to economize.… Gramma was a master of making do. She knew all sorts of ways to economize and to put food on the table that everybody would enjoy and never feel deprived. This is one of the recipes I found stashed in my mom’s things Continue reading
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Chicken with Roast Potatoes, Harissa, Roast Onions and Greens
Not exactly Southwest but really, really good!… I made my own harissa and used it as indicated in this recipe. It gives the whole business a special “kick” and I was surprised at how GOOD it was. Ingredients 1-1/2 lbs. chicken thighs (skin on or not) 1-1/4 lbs. potatoes (russet or Yukon gold) sliced into Continue reading
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Desert Southwest Recipes I Recommend
Chipotle Garbanzo Tacos…. I stumbled upon this while searching the internet for recipes that used chipotle. I had a partial can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, and I wanted to use it up. This recipe is really, really good! I tried it on my sister and she scarfed it and wanted more. P.S. I Continue reading
Quail Run Ranch 