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Cook the Book: Lidia's Italy
Tiramisu is always nice to please a crowd! Or piping hot, fresh popovers with a hearty meal.
Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book
Creme Brulee!! Mmm!
Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway
a slow-cooked picnic ham, savory and moist!!!!!
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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
2 things I always requested from her around my birthday, though they don't go together AT. ALL. Homemade creamy wild rice soup and her pecan pie. My gosh, so wonderful.
Cook the Book: Lidia's Italy
Tiramisu is always nice to please a crowd! Or piping hot, fresh popovers with a hearty meal.
Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book
Creme Brulee!! Mmm!
Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway
a slow-cooked picnic ham, savory and moist!!!!!
Pickle Sickle, Anyone?
Of course, this is the SAME friend who actually tried that kool-aid pickle thing that was the hot topic some months ago, and willingly ate those too...so...
Pickle Sickle, Anyone?
I HAVE TRIED THEM! My dear friend and downstairs neighbor recently had a baby, and during her pregnancy, her partner went online and ordered her a case of these (in what would appear to be a halfhearted attempt to play into the old 'you're pregnant so will likely want to eat weird things' idea). She raved about them and wouldn't quit pushing them on me until I tried one, and lo, with her face grinning at me in wild anticipation of my first crunchy, yellowish-green frozen bite, I was instantly horrified. Yeah, it's pickly. It's ice cold. It's salty, vinegary, hard as a rock, with absolutely no hint of sweetness. I really wanted to support her love of them, but I just couldn't. They ARE as gross as they seem. Kids would probably totally love them just for the shock value. However, I must say this -the company apparently kicks butt, because they later sent her a whole second case and a t-shirt for FREE, along with a nice thank-you letter for their first purchase. You certainly don't see that... well, ever!
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Holidays'
homemade chocolate pudding. Quick and perfect!
Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Cookbook'
Oh my gosh - a favorite from my childhood that mom used to make once in a great while. Dried beef rolled up with cream cheese, sliced into bites and stabbed with a green olive and a toothpick. TOO GOOD!
Cook the Book: 'The Food You Crave'
Homemade bread and butter pickles (okay, NOT so healthy on the sodium end, but otherwise not too bad!) or a big bowl of plain, nutty wild rice. Yum!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Garrison Confections' Garrison Big Box
The milkier, the better!
Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!
Yi: I just broke the office silence with a hearty chortle-snort, thanks to you!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Bacon of the Month Club
I'm the first to say pliant?! Pllllliant.
Cook the Book: 'The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics'
Indeed, made a lovely pumpkin cake of hers, complete with 2 bundt cakes layered with their bottoms together, an orange glaze, and chocolate leaves! Putzy, but worth it!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Garrison Confections Ultimate Chocolate Cooler
Beautiful, shiny, hard dark chocolate begone. I'll take the milk, thanks!
Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!
dizastress and yi: omg, me too! in a silent (S-I-L-E-N-T) office area and here I am giggling at the thought of lookalike cats staring each other down from across the street....oh, geez. i've gotta step outside to let this laugh out or i may just implode!
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My Korean wedding banquet. OK, she had help, but I know her food and her organizational skills and so I can confidently say, she prepared this meal. And it was amazing and I will always remember it.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Mom rarely puts her heart into cooking. About twenty years ago, though, she prepared meat fondue -- that was great fun! And most memorable. Loved cooking my beef and chicken in the hot oil at the table. She also allowed all of us to make our own assortment of dipping sauces. My brother mixed grape jelly with godknowswhat. We all laughed. It's a shame we never had it again.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Her cooking and baking was so phenomenal, it's impossible to choose. She was always trying new recipes, especially from Julia and Jacques. I loved her pies and gratins.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My mother makes homemade ravioli and Italian spaghetti suace and meatballs to die for. She's Sicilian
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Stuffed artichokes smothered in tomato sauce.. YUM.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Her beef and noodles are the best.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
i always loved my moms beef stew
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
my mom made the most awesome fried chicken :)
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
The most memorable meal was when I was sick as a kid- it was very simple- cinnamon toast and soup. As an adult it is the best comfort food.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
We always loved funnel cake from the local fairs and festivals and one year we were all too sick to attend and we were sad to miss the funnel cake. My Mom bravely attempted a funnel cake at home. It didn't look right or taste right but it was full of memories :-)
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My mother still is the best cook ever! The meal she cooks that will always knock my socks off is a pork loin roast. She stuffs it with just the right amount of garlic and adds her homemade gravy. No matter what sides are there, you will always remember the roast.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My mother was a fantastic cook. Raised during the Depression, she honed her cooking skills from her mother, a Swiss immigrant in a small mining town in Virginia. Her Swiss cooking was superior. What she excelled in was Hungarian cooking. She married my father, a first generation Hungarian American. They lived in a close-knit Hungarian neighborhood where the flavors of Hungary were reflected in their garden and kitchen. My grandmother took my mother under her wing and taught her to cook the Hungarian way. My most memorable dinner was her Chicken Paprika served over Hungarian spoon dumplings and accompanied by a simple cucumber and onion salad. The perfect ending for the meal was a slice of Dobes Torte, a rich Hungarian nut torte. This meal was reserved for special occasions. I worked in the kitchen with my mother to make sure that I could recreate these dishes. I am pretty good at preparing this meal. Of course, it pales in comparison to my mother's and grandmother's versions of these dishes.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
I would have to say the desserts were more memorable than the meals.... blueberry coffee cake, chocolate chip cookies (which won a blue ribbon for me at the local fair last year!), chocolate chip light brownies, cocoa drop cookies, marshmallow brownies, and sea foam, just to name a few.
thought she was a good cook also!
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Salami & butter sandwiches
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My father was the real cook in the house, but mom had a couple of specialties like her lentil soup she made every New Year's Day (along with the black-eyed peas, of course!). But, one that I really remember (because it reminds me of how she would always make the best with what we had), was a time when my dad had been without a job for awhile and money was very tight. She took a couple of can's of spam, whole. She scored it and studded it with cloves, then basted with her brown sugar/mustard/honey sauce and baked it. Just like she would do when we could afford a real ham!! All of us kids loved it! It was like eating mini hams.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
The most memorable meal that my mother made for me contained anchovies. Need I say more! I am still trying to recover from that meal years later!
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
I love my mom's fried chicken and mashed potatoes meal.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Mom's blueberry buckle fresh out of the oven. There is no better weekend treat!
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
One of my most favorite memories was a recurring one where we would meet for an occassional 'midnight snack'.
Mind you, this was before microwaves were as commonplace as refrigerators, we would periodically get up in the dark of night for a good old fashioned BLT. We worked in the kitchen as though we were spys...quietly getting the old, heavy, skillet out of the pantry...tearing lettuce under gently running water hoping the pipes wouldn't clank...and slicing up some fresh tomatoes while keeping an eye on the toaster to catch it before it 'popped' so it wouldn't wake up anyone else in the house.
This was my first Mother's Day without her. She is certainly missed, but the magnificent memories will remain forever.
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
Mom makes the chocolate fudge icing that you can literaly peel off of the cake and eat it like candy!
Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine
My mother prepared a lot of memorable meals, as she is a great cook. The comfort foods - brisket, chicken soup, stuffed grape leaves, vats of hummous - definitely stand out. But the most memorable were the ones she DIDN'T cook, when she thought we latchkey kids (the oldest in junior high at the time) could handle some simple cooking on our own and left a half-ound of hamburder or a few pieces of chicken to our devices. Mom had shown us the basics of cooking, how to read a cookbook, and so forth. While we could have done basic stuff, I remember Spanish rice, mini-cheeseburgers on homemade buns from a bisquit recipe, and stir-fried beef with cucumbers and some of our tested recipes. It gave us the skills and confidence to cook once we left home - and the knowledge of important steps like "clean as you go" and dealing with greasy pans.
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2 things I always requested from her around my birthday, though they don't go together AT. ALL. Homemade creamy wild rice soup and her pecan pie. My gosh, so wonderful.