This past weekend Gerrit and I had dinner at my parents’ house, and when we were making the plans my mom asked me if I could whip something up for dessert. My first instant thought is that unless you are putting refrigerated cookies in the oven or making something having to do boxed pudding or…
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Apparently January brings something out in me that is breakfast obsessed. I have been making pancakes and muffins right and left. And then there were grits and biscuits (admittedly rarely for actual breakfast though). And now there is the French country omelet, which while under our breakfast category, we thoroughly enjoyed for a light dinner….
I have to be honest here and tell you that my first reaction to having pound cake is generally probably “ehhh.” Sure pound cake is wonderful, and sometimes it absolutely hits the spot, and one day I will probably make some seemingly boring general pound cake recipe and post it on this blog and tell…
Growing up, my dad used to make biscuits every Saturday morning. He would get up early and roll them out carefully while my mom cooked sausage. My dad was obsessive about his recipe. I remember he spent months perfecting it, and there were a few Saturday mornings where we chewed on biscuits that were too…
There are a lot of moments that define my life with food, and mostly these are times when I taste something so spectacular that it seems to surpass the realm of food. They are like Julia Child’s meal of sole meuniere she had as her first meal in France that opened up an entire new…