Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
People are more similar to books than one realizes. There are three ways to get to know what a book is all about. Look at the cover only and form a conclusion based upon no factual information.
Read the tease on the inside, or back, cover and form a conclusion based upon rumor or gossip. Read...
The basic tradition for welcoming, and bribing, Santa Claus is to leave out a plate of cookies, and a glass of milk.
It is a given that Santa, therefore, must love sweets, and be able to tolerate dairy very well.
But what if, and I am just throwing this out there, you threw aside the traditional,...
From experience, coming up with recipes in the mind, figuring out ingredients and putting it all together can be either delicious success, or “what the heck was I thinking!” failure.
However, once in a great while, a recipe seeming to go wrong ends up creating an amazing yummy mistake.
Take, for...
It is December 1st as I am writing this and, being the ultimate holiday month, time to plan out what sweets to make for sharing. Correct, for sharing.
Each year I endeavor to make enough treats to give out to those who have provided services throughout the year. There are also the folks that Roy...
Essentially, what is the holiday of Thanksgiving all about? This made me recently wonder due to Thanksgiving being notated on my wall calendar, but for different countries.
I knew about the holiday happening in the USA and Canada, but more countries than those two? Our basic definition is an...
Currently I am reading Ghostly Awakening, by E M Leya (a Salt Lake City, UT resident), which is about assistant medical examiner, Lance who is involved in a near fatal car accident and receives a severe head injury.
Finally able to return to work, he suddenly starts seeing ghosts, and worries he is...
Gravy making, why does it seem to be so complicated? Growing up, the only gravy I remember having at a meal was at Thanksgiving time, and it was not homemade, but came out of a can. During my first marriage I would watch my, then, mother-in-law make a slurry of flour, garlic powder and water, pour...
“Do you know
the Muffin man
The Muffin man, the Muffin man
Oh, do you know the Muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane?”
This song, or nursery rhyme, was first published in 1820, but its origin story goes back farther than that.
It is based upon an urban legend about a baker in London’s West End, a poor...
Saturday night is “date night” for Roy and myself. Often times I cook up buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks, hand cut fries, homemade pizza, even do all the work required for authentic English style fish n’ chips.
Then we pick out a movie, usually a mystery, horror, sci-fi, or comedic mystery,...
“Put on the skillet,
put on the lid
Mama’s gonna make a little short’nin’ bread
That ain’t all
Mama’s gonna do
She’s gonna make
a little coffee, too
Mama’s little baby loves short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves short’nin’ bread
Mama’s little baby loves short’nin’, short’nin’
Her little...
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