Anadama Bread

Barbara, of Bless Us O Lord, has requested my recipe for Anadama Bread.
According to Wikipedia:
Anadama bread is a traditional bread of New England made with white flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour. There are several popular myths about the origin of the name, which mostly take this form:
“A fisherman, angry with his wife, Anna, [...]

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Step Away from the Recipe….

I have rarely in my life done anything the way I was supposed to, or the way anyone else did it. My parents swear that my first complete sentence was “me do it myself,”and my brother has commented that I not only “think outside the box,” but do not know the actual location of the [...]

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Menu Planning Week 19

Its still fall, still the right time to buy local apples, cauliflower, and squash and to think pumpkins. I am fairly constantly baking pumpkin bread, muffins, etc., and when (if?) I get back to writing more often I’ll post some of what I’m making.
In heavy rotation at the moment is a cookbook I sort of [...]

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Menu Planning Week 18

Although I am reasonably confident that today is Monday Tuesday, I am only now publishing my usual Thursday menu plan from last week. This is partly due to the fact that on Thursday we were visited by a series of tornadoes which struck near here and caused extensive disruption and destruction. Sam and I were [...]

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Brunswick Stew

 
Last week I discovered a recipe for Brunswick Stew in the most recent issue of “Cooking Light.” My mother made a version of the dish when I was a child, and my father particularly loves it. It is a tomato-based stew with meat and vegetables that may include beef, chicken, rabbit, squirrel, corn, okra and [...]

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Menu Planning Week 17

This is a somewhat atypical week for dinner around here. Rob heads to a conference in Detroit on Wednesday night, and Sam and I join him Friday, so we have two “nursery dinner” nights and one night when we’ll all be out of town. Additionally, I have an odd assortment of foodstuffs left over from [...]

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Yes, No and Maybe…

Tonight’s dinner was risky. I made peanut and Panko crusted boneless, skinless chicken breasts using a healthy breading technique I found in “Cooking Light,” Angel Hair pasta with Thai peanut sauce, and broccoli rabe (or rapini, if you prefer) blanched and then sauteed with garlic and a little sesame oil to finish.
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I Know What Boys Like

Its not what you think. This is still a G-rated blog.

In addition to baking for the “boys” in my house, I regularly bake goodies for our college student neighbors, many of whom also happen to be boys. We live in a house that is literally surrounded by student rentals, so I start the year [...]

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Menu Planning Week 16

Well, I’ve been posting menu plans for 4 months now. I’m not sure its helping anyone but me, but I choose to maintain the illusion that there are people out there who are close to leaping from the bridge of family cooking, only to discover this blog, breathe a sigh of relief, perhaps say “I [...]

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Doughnuts

Poor Proust had only his madeleines to remind him of “things past,” but I have a feast of foods (albeit an odd feast) that have the power to transport me back in time. The smell of ratatouille cooking (home), the taste of instant mashed potatoes (school), wax lips (weekends), chopped liver on a cracker (one [...]

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