Nearly ten years ago our daughter, Amy, sent me an email with a main dish recipe that included pasta with potatoes and greens and cheese that she wanted me to make for her birthday dinner. I had never heard of combining pasta and potatoes in a casserole. It sounded weird to me, so I was…
Beer Biscuits from Scratch
You’ve probably all heard of beer bread, right? But have you heard of Beer Biscuits? Possibly my all-time favorite biscuit recipe is this one that I adapted from The Soup & Bread Cookbook by Beatrice Ojakangas. The recipe was printed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Taste Section a couple of years ago. If you’ve never heard…
Brazilian Cheese Balls for the Big Game
A few years ago, I ran across a recipe for a cheesy Portuguese bread from Brazil called pao de queijo, (pronounced POW gee KAY-zho) and it piqued my curiosity because of the ingredients and the technique used. These Brazilian cheese balls are served in that country either with strong coffee for breakfast, or later in…
Put De Lime In De Coconut…
Next Tuesday is St Patrick’s Day so we’ve been thinking about a menu that fits the holiday. But today is March 14th, National Pi Day, as in the Greek symbol used in mathematics to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is always the same number (3.14159265359), no matter…
SIMPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE
This recipe is a special Valentine’s Day treat that I asked MaryJo to prepare since she is the best and only baker in the house. While this technically is not a healthy meal, it is a necessary indulgence for this particular day. MaryJo’s Simple Chocolate Cake…take it away MaryJo! Tuesday (the 10th) was our…