Holly Jolly Dirt Cake
Holly Jolly Dirt Cake Here’s another no-bake adventure for kids who enjoy cooking. Little kids, if making this for an adult, like to pretend the cake really is dirt! I’ve modified it as the quantity of sugar would have the ‘cooks’ standing on the table throwing the mix at each other and the amount of […]
Cranberry sauce smoothies
Reach into the refrigerator and recycle your leftover cranberry sauce with a festive take on smoothies. Blend this: two bananas 8 ounces yogurt 1 cup ice two tablespoons leftover cranberry sauce (We prepared the sauce two days ago with water, fresh cranberries, grated orange peel, and sugar.) Yield: Four small smoothies.
Minding the English . . .
Jane Manaster takes this cookery post from Austin back to England with Minding the English . . . Jane was raised in England long ago when eating roast heart or stewed tripe served with a glutinous white sauce were not uncommon. No special names disguised their identity! English food unjustly has a very bad reputation. Wangle an invitation to someone’s home […]
Recipe Risk
Jane Manaster shares her take on . . . risky recipes Selecting a recipe online is such a temptation and such a gamble. Even experienced cooks eager to try something new can be lured into making bad mistakes. My latest failure was bran and raisin muffins. I trawled one site after another, rejecting the recipe […]
Don’t chuck the pumpkin seeds
We’re carving pumpkins this evening . . . and roasting the seeds to a crunch. Don’t chuck the seeds. Give your pumpkin seeds this quick oven roast.
Peel and Eat Potatoes-Peelin’ with Jane
Peel This The Cookery welcomes Austin’s Jane Manaster back this week to challenge us with a post on peeling potatoes. Peelin’ with Jane: Remember when potatoes were a staple? At 50 – 99 cents a pound, and with pasta and rice down in price, they are almost a luxury. When a visit to the supermarket […]
About that nutmeg . . .
Sometimes it sounds like a nut – but it’s not. If you’re managing nut allergies among family and friends, you probably bump into the nutmeg question, as we do, this time of year. I lace my pumpkin pies with nutmeg, and our nut-allergy-positive family members and friends freely indulge. Nutmeg is not a nut, but a […]
Chili and cool weather: match made
A cool breeze is blowin’ through Austin so break out the chili pans or plan to sample cook-off tastings. The Cookery welcomes guest blogger Jane Manaster, Austin writer and geographer, with a heads-up on chili season. Thanks, Jane! Take some heat from Jane: Now that we can look forward to manageable weather, our culinary thoughts turn from […]
Rhubarb Pie . . . from your own oven
Keen on rhubarb? Here’s a look at Mama’s rhubarb pie . . . just in from our 80-year-old baking mama. She’s sending out the challenge to give this one a try. No time to make crust? Take the shortcut if you don’t want to factor in crust preparation. Strawberry Rhubarb Custard Pie […]
Browsing at Sprouts
Sparkling clean and still new in town, Sprouts is the latest in markets to sprout up around Austin. The Sunset Valley location offers a fair selection, which drew me in along with this week’s special . . . strawberries at 99 cents per pound. I found a few well-priced staples as well as a new temptation – fig […]