A Mess ‘o Magazine (Pages)
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: Table Talk: Janet – posts by Janet | Tags: cooking, Family (biology), family recipes, food, Home, Magazine, magazines, Recipe, Recipe Collections, savings recipes 4 Comments »
Janet here: Sooooo last year I posted about my magazine, um, problem. The picture probably tells the story but if you want to hear all the messy details, you can read it here.
At the time, my very clever solution was to simply tear the pages out of the magazines, thus eliminating the ever-growing stack. (You can probably tell where this is going.) But now, I have a mess of — yup — pages, including recipes I’ve printed from things I’ve read online. It’s not pretty.
Oh Brother, Mother.
Posted: January 12, 2012 Filed under: Table Talk: Rachel – posts by Rachel | Tags: Cook, cooking rules, Cutting board, food, Home, Kitchen, mother and daughter, Real Simple, Recipe 1 Comment »Rachel here.
Ok, so yesterday my mom wrote this post about how she like, doesn’t need to follow cooking rules or some madness like that. She claims her cooking is not only fine, but good, rules be damned.
I grew up eating her food. I turned out fine. She rarely repulsed me (except by refusing to believe that I hate broccoli and cauliflower until I was well into my 20s) and some of her dishes remain my all-time favorite meals to eat (her Greek Pizza and granola are unrivaled in my opinion). However, the woman isn’t a professional. She just isn’t. And, as her concession that letting dairy products warm to room temperature before baking does, in fact, improve the end product suggests, maybe the pros are onto something.
Great Great Aunt Eurania’s Snowball Cookies
Posted: December 14, 2011 Filed under: Table Talk: Rachel – posts by Rachel | Tags: Cookie, cooking, family recipes, Home, mexican wedding cookies, pecans, powdered sugar, Recipe, shortbread, Snowball Cookie, snowball cookies, vintage 2 Comments »Rachel here.
So, Monday I promised you all the easiest cookie recipe of all time. Tucked among these…
And these…
Is this!
And no, it’s not an address book. Or, you know, it IS, but it doesn’t contain addresses.
Buckeyes And Other Baking
Posted: December 12, 2011 Filed under: Table Talk: Rachel – posts by Rachel | Tags: baking, buckeyes, chocolate, christmas, Cinnamon, Cookie, friends and family, Home, mjuk pepparkakor, Oven, peanut butter, Recipe Leave a comment »Rachel here.
So, we spent the better part of the weekend in the kitchen here in California. As you know, I’ve had some serious baking lurking in my to-do list. So, John and I rolled up our sleeves and set to work.
The first thing in the oven was Mjuk Pepparkakor. I accidentally put 5 tablespoons of cinnamon in instead of 5 teaspoons. Of course, I did this into a bowl that contained the final contents of our flour jar and, of course, I did this immediately after returning home from the grocery store.
We’ll Have Beer with that Chicken Please
Posted: March 4, 2011 Filed under: Mike the Gay Beer Guy | Tags: beer pairings, Belgian Dubbel beer, Belgium, chicken, Dubbel, flour, homebrewed beer, Mike the Gay Beer Guy, olive oil, Recipe, Sauce, Trappist beer Leave a comment »
Mike the Gay Beer Guy is back for his monthly posting on fabulous pairings with beer. Up this month, a delicious chicken dish. You don’t have to brew your own beer to make this, of course, although if you’re inspired to take that one, Mike’s the guy to show you how…
Hi Janet and Rachel -
First off, I have an announcement to make! Due to the GREAT success from my entries in LTIR, I have decided to start my own beer blog. Basically, it comes down to this: I have received so many great comments about my posts, but so many folks read the beer lingo like a foreign language. In order to go into more beer related detail (and to cover a wider range of ideas), it became necessary to go down a new avenue. Of course I’ll still be writing for LTIR once a month, but I’ll make sure the focus is food related.
Check in at mikesbeerguyblog.blogspot.com regularly for posts about beer, brewing, eating, and everything else out there!
Fake It Til You Make It
Posted: February 18, 2011 Filed under: Miss Fake It Til You Make It | Tags: Apple pie, Betty Crocker, cheesecake, Cookie, Cooking spray, Cool Whip, cream cheese, Fake It Til You Make It, Recipe, streusel, whipped cream 1 Comment »
One recipe is an anomaly. Two suggests a pattern. Three and you’re full on into a lifestyle, which is why we decided that the third post by our friend Susan involving a “fake” recipe, ie a recipe that isn’t entirely from scratch, deserves a nickname. And so it is that we introduce Susan, Miss Fake It Til You Make It.
I need to make one thing clear immediately: All three of these recipes have been very tasty. It’s just that Susan is the same friend who literally went into my freezer one night while having dinner at my house and pulled out a container of Cool Whip and proclaimed to the seated group something like, “AHA! I KNEW this wasn’t real whipped cream!!!” And she has brought that story up more than once while enjoying a tasty meal at my home with others.
It was scarring.
Peach and Blueberry Kuchen
Posted: August 20, 2010 Filed under: Table Talk Times Two - posts by Janet and Rachel together | Tags: Baking powder, Blueberry, cooking, Dessert, heavy cream, homemade dessert, Kuchen, peach, peach kuchen, peaches, Recipe, Sugar 2 Comments »
Janet here: When I was a child, peach kuchen was one of my favorite desserts. It was a happy night when I walked into the kitchen and smelled this, still slightly warm. This recipe is a variation on my mother’s, which — sign of the times — called for canned peaches. Talk about sugar overkill! I can’t imagine making this with anything other than fresh fruit. Depending on the season, you could use blueberries, raspberries, some combination of whatever berries you love, and maybe even apples.
Rachel here: Ok, so first of all, this stuff is seriously good.
