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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Easy, homemade, barbeque sauce
Posted in family, food, recollections on June 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Walking to school
Posted in family, recollections, St. Louis on December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of the things I most look forward to when I am visiting my family is walking my nephew to school in the morning. It’s not a long walk, but there is something peaceful about being out with all of the other parents and kids and dogs converging on the neighborhood school in the frosty [...]
Food memories
Posted in cooking, family, food, recollections on December 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I am not sure why, but recently I have been craving stuffed cabbage. It’s one of the dishes my mother used to make and I remember it as hearty and filling and flavorful; a wonderful one-dish Sunday supper. If I cooked with meat it would be easier to recreate my mother’s recipe (which used ground [...]
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