Month: November 2013

Blog Post Photo of Quince Crosata with Whole Cloves
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Those Epicurious Readers!

Do you ever read the comments from people who have made the recipes from various sites, Epicureous as an example? Just for fun I thought I would. OMG…who are these people? Often the comments will  say they made the recipe but changed up and/or swapped out all kinds of ingredients and then say that they […]

Blog Post Photo, "Peace Rose"
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A Bouquet of Roses

Sunday, November 17th, a very important and poignant day!  The rose in the photo comes from her favourite rosebush that I saved when their house was sold. My mom would have celebrated her 93rd birthday this year and I wish we could spend the day together. I would make her a cake. Most of the […]

Blog Photo Post, Some of My Cookbooks
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Our Mentors

Thank goodness for PBS and their T.V. cooking shows in the ‘70’s, 80’s and ‘90’s.  What would I have done without them! Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Pierre Franey “first you take the chicken”, Anne Willan, Keith Floyd (for his infectious joy of food and sense of the ridiculous), Lorenza di Medici and Lidia Bastianich to name a […]