I am about to embark on a cruise, to celebrate Cartoonist’s 16th birthday. I don’t know what to expect, but I do know I won’t be cooking. I’ll report back what happened and if I was able to eat as close to the source as possible while I was away. We shall see. I’ll miss […]
why apple sauce, of course
I was at a loss. I had baked and cooked, and couldn’t figure out what else to do. I lamented to my sweetie, when she called, that I still had all these apples left, and I didn’t want them to go bad. Why don’t you make apple sauce? she asked. That is what you usually […]
Wonderful Apple Custard Pie
As I said, I love the Moosewood Cookbook. The recipe for Apple Custard Pie was easy to follow and tasted great. Cartoonist said this was one we had to make again. This called for 2 cups of peeled and sliced apples, put in to a pie crust. I am really bad at making pie crusts. […]
Apple Bread, turns out
I love the Enchanted Broccoli Forest, as well as The Moosewood Cookbook. I have not been let down by anything I have cooked from there, so I turned to these two books for what I made next. I found an Apple Bread that didn’t look bad, or too hard, so I set to it. First, […]
Apple Cake, Cement Cake
I still had plenty of apples, so the next recipe I decided to make was one from the newspaper, and I decided to alter it as much as I wanted…and yes, I knew that was a bad idea, but oh well. I not only wanted to use up apples, but the plums I had, and […]
Tar muffins
Although we knew shouldn’t, we once again turned to Baby Cakes for our first recipe, which was apple-cinnamon muffins. We figured that all the other times that it hadn’t turned out well, we must have changed something, so we tried to follow the recipe as closely as we could. As usual, for Baby Cakes, the […]
…and too many apples
And we also had too many apples. This is also not usually a problem, as Cartoonist loves apples. She can never get enough of them, and eats to many a day. But, like the perfect storm, the apples we got from the farm were tart , which Cartoonist doesn’t really like, and she was away […]
Quite enough carrots, thank you
I don’t usually have this problem. Come to think of it, I never have this problem, as Cartoonist love carrots, and even if I had a bunch or two bunches, she would eat them before the week was out. But this week, was different, she went off to a be in a wedding, so hasn’t […]
Strange kitchen
When Cartoonist was out of town, she kept on cooking. She was down at her grandmother’s house, and wanted to show off some of the things she had been baking. However, my mother had a new oven, and it had no directions, so when Cartoonist put her chocolate nibs in to cook, she couldn’t figure […]
NonGadgets
One of the things that I have rediscovered, and Cartoonist love, is making popcorn by hand, or rather by pot. Her friends are all amazed at how easy it is to do, and have watched with open mouths as I put oil and kernels into a pot and shake it. They are all so used […]
