Category: recipe
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Not Victoria’s Sandwich
How to make a new kind of sponge sandwich. Only at Pascha time, though.
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Chevre Souffle
YOUR HOST STARTED MAKING souffle during Covid. Jacques Pepin said his Mom used to make it this way. I doubt that – I bet Jacques made this recipe: he always finds ways to cut corners. That’s ok. It’s not the full-on Trad Souffle. Let’s call his the Novus Ordo Souffle. The only difference in my…
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Localist Milkshake
OK. OK. OK. I know – what we think of as hot here in SF is not hot anywhere else. But it was 22C today. The fact that it’s 20 (that’s 68F…) at 7PM is just hot for July. We can sometimes expect mid 60s here, but only in the midday. I’ve seen it hit…
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Meat Cookies 2022
THIS YEAR I continued my experimentation with Mom’s Sausage and Cheese balls. I think this year is the best I’ve come up with. Makes about 3 dozens.
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Savory Side Dish
Combine everything like a meatloaf and then stuff in two or three small pumpkins that have been beheaded and gutted. Roast at 350 degrees until a thermometer inserted in the meat registers 160 degrees. That took about 1.5 hours for me, but it depends on your oven and the size of the pumpkins. I used…
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A better nog
I called this “English Christmas” in its first incarnation – which was only the gin and some chocolate bitters. Last time I wanted to share it with someone I couldn’t find the bitters at all. On to the Creme which is kinda gross, but it did so mething different. It’s taken a while to get…
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King Cake 2022
THIS YEAR’S King Cake was entirely my own tinkering. The first time I had King Cake (1999?) I did not like the pastry so I tinkered, and eventually made my own recipe (based on the Brioche recipe in Essential Pepin). You need a food processor for this. Then I had to fix the filling. For…
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Best Hot Fudge Sauce Ever.
This hot fudge sauce is also keto-friendly. I won’t debate if all the ingredients are perfectly keto, but precious few carbs went into this. Start with 4 strips of bacon: I put them in a hot pan at about 200F and let them cook slowly, rendering their fatty, salty deliciousness (or “proving” as the old…
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Buttermilk Snow (with Mincemeat)
A tasty holiday treat or try other flavors on the same base… 1 packet unflavored gelatin 1/2 Cup boiling water 1 1/2 Cups full fat, cultured buttermilk* 1/3 Cup heavy whipping cream 1 packet of stevia Mincemeat filling/topping Dissolve gelatin in boiling water and let it cool slightly. Whisk in a bit of the buttermilk…
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Pimento Cheese!
✙JMJ Pimento Cheese is a Southern thing, or so I thought. The Fanny Farmer Cookbook from 1952 is filled with interesting recipes like this from the “Boston Cooking School”. Folks in the Fifties seem to worry about flavor though: a finely minced half clove of garlic is a common addition. Mayonnaise is a good addition to…
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Pancakes!
JMJ Old cookbooks are a passion of mine – not antique ones, but rather old ones. Something written in 1640 will have lots of silly ingredients that may be of some interest to historians, but if the stuff can’t be purchased at Safeway and prepared easily in a modern kitchen, it’s not worth my while…
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Lent’s Here. Let’s talk food.
+JMJ+ BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet is one of my most favourite things, right after whiskers on kittens and Atmospheric River Events on roses. They travel the UK looking for regional specialties and sharing cooking advice. Most of the members of the panel are from some part of the UK (I think), but they…
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Eggnog Recipe and Disclaimer
+JMJ+ Here’s how to make eggnog, right now, at home. Without adding corn syrup and artificial thickeners. Here’s the promised disclaimer: if you make this recipe without the alcohol, you may risk some sort of deadly egg contamination. So don’t do it. Drink alcohol and be safe. Here’s where a real food blog would add…
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Cranberry Celebration Copycat Recipe
If you live near a Kroger’s or a King Sooper (that’s in Colorado) then you know what is this thing called Cranberry Celebration. My parents love it so much that they will do a day trip up to that College Town that has neither Alabama, nor Georgia, nor even Georgia Tech in it, just to…
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Advent Soup & Frybread
For Orthodox of both eastern and western rites, the period leading up to Christmas is a time of abstaining from animal products. Fish may be ok, shellfish too, but meat, dairy and eggs are right out. So we find other things to do. These two recipes have become mainstays for me this season, already: and…
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