Here’s tasty salad dressing from Julia. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon mayonnaise 1 tablespoon molasses 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest 2 teaspoons minced fresh chives 1 garlic clove finely minced 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup lemon juice 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 cup vegetable … Continue reading Lemon-Garlic-Chive Vinaigrette
Recipes
Vinegars
I frequently try new recipes, and often those recipes call for a particular ingredient, such as a type of vinegar. So I go out and buy that vinegar and then never use it again. Or rarely. I now have a variety of vinegars, some of which, like white vinegar, I use all the time, and … Continue reading Vinegars
Whole Wheat Pancakes
I love pancakes but they’ve never seemed to be a very wholesome meal, so when I came across this recipe for 100% whole wheat pancakes, I thought, hmm, that makes them sound actually healthful. The basic recipe makes way more than I need, so I just make half the recipe, which I’ve provided. I generally … Continue reading Whole Wheat Pancakes
French Apple Cake
The original recipe calls for a tablespoon of Calvados, but who has that on hand? The substitutes are apple brandy or white rum. I had white rum so I made that the primary and the others the subs. It’s a pain to remove the cake from the bottom of the pan, so just leave … Continue reading French Apple Cake
Arlene’s Shoo Fly Pie
I just noticed that I hadn’t written about my mother’s shoo fly pie recipe on the current incarnation of my blog. I had done so on a previous blog but not on this one. Also, I hadn’t made a shoo fly pie in some time. So I just rectified that as well. A few notes. … Continue reading Arlene’s Shoo Fly Pie
Salmon Cakes
I’m so used to salmon cakes that seem to have more filler than salmon and often have little flavor that can be identified as salmon, so I was intrigued by the notion of making my own. And this recipe from America’s Test Kitchen looked pretty simple and sounded very tasty. But I made a major … Continue reading Salmon Cakes
Shrimp Omelette
I was looking for something to do with shrimp and decided to try an omelette. I found a recipe but made a few changes. I started with a shallot, as I had some left over and I haven’t cooked with shallots very much, so why not? I cut it into thin slices. Three jumbo shrimp, … Continue reading Shrimp Omelette
Cilantro Lime Dressing
I wanted to do something with the rest of that fresh cilantro before it wilted and went bad like so many of my fresh herbs tend to do before I can use them. So I found a recipe for salad dressing that sounded promising. In fact, it turned out to be quite good. It called … Continue reading Cilantro Lime Dressing
Brownies
It occurred to me that while I’ve made blondies several times, I haven’t tried brownies in a very long while. That’s because of my memory of the last time I tried; the recipe seemed overly complicated and they only turned out so-so. But that was in my far distant youth. Maybe it was time it … Continue reading Brownies
Olive’s Cookies – Part 4
It seemed that the recipe that Olive Geiss had given our mother back in the early 1960s for her delicious sugar cookies, the ones that we had always called Olive’s cookies, that recipe might be gone for good. And then I remembered. A few years earlier I had taken my mother to her brother Allen’s … Continue reading Olive’s Cookies – Part 4