Topics from my Brother-part 2

What do you cook with? In sticking with topics that my brother asked me about, he questioned the uptick in popularity of cast iron. He wanted to know why I thought it was all the rage again. To me the simple reason to cook with cast iron is because of its versatility. Today’s cast iron […]

My Dad and Grandma

I find myself writing about my Dad and Grandma a lot. I have to say that I loved my Grandma but she kind of scared me a bit too. She always seemed so much bigger and robust then my Mother’s Mom who was a tiny thing, in fact she got along very well with my […]

Finds from Grandma’s Recipe Box

Over the weekend I started to go through my Grandma’s recipe box. It was packed pretty tightly with all kinds of recipes. A lot of them where hand written, but quite a few you can tell she used a typewriter to type up the recipes. There were recipes for Church gatherings, Family gatherings and recipes […]

Church Windows #2

In my blog yestereday I promised the recipe for the cookies and here it is written in my Aunt Alice’s handwriting. I’m also going to type it. Church Window Cookies 1 stick of Oleo ( margarine is what most people call it. I bought Imperial) 12 ounce package of chocolate chips 1 cup of coconut […]

3 Things from Culinary School that I still practice today

The basics that I learned in Culinary School are still with me as much today, 22 years later, as they were when I was a fresh-faced kid of 22 picking up a knife for the first time. My Holy Trinity of cooking well comes from 3 things I learned on my first day. Always have […]