My sister-in-law Karen is frequently the person who inspires me in the kitchen. (She’s also the person who inspired me to start this blog.) Her kitchen is a spacious, family-friendly spot and the food that she creates is always tasty, and even really good for you. I’ve spent many happy hours there, watching her cook [...]
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Inspiration
Posted in baking, family on February 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Cherry drinking vinegar — part two
Posted in drink, family on July 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Last week I posted the recipe for cherry drinking vinegar used to make a colonial drink called a shrub (concentrated syrup made from fruit, vinegar and sugar poured over ice and sparkling water). When you last saw me, I had pitted and mashed the cherries, covered them with apple cider vinegar and left them to [...]
Easy, homemade, barbeque sauce
Posted in family, food, recollections on June 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When I was growing up, one of my favorite summer foods was barbequed chicken. I especially looked forward to the times when my mother made her homemade sauce — a sweet, tomatoey, fragrant barbeque sauce based on a recipe that she got from “a fellow-worker in the University [of Iowa] Hospitals when [she] was writing [...]
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