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Get on a Roll Designing Your Own Sandwich
Something about a sandwich makes us smile, and under our current conditions, that’s not a bad thing. Think about your favorite sandwich: it’s portable, you can eat it with your hands, it’s an interesting combination of ingredients, and you can…
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Pumpkins – The Oldest Sister
I have a warm spot in my heart for pumpkins. They are, after all, the oldest of the Native American “Three Sisters” – corn, beans, and pumpkins. The squash category of vegetables was likely first cultivated in Central America over…
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Welcome to Comfort Food Season
Tis the season for something substantial. The cool temps at night means that most diners are not in the mood for a salad. Nature agrees. The summer birds have headed south, and the leaves are beginning to turn. One advantage…
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Pass the Gravy, Please!
When I asked my friend Tom about his favorite childhood food memory, the reply was swift and certain: bread and gravy. His mother was a master cook, he said, with 200 cookbooks and three linear feet of 4-by-6-inch recipe cards.…
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How Do You Like Them Apples?
It’s apple season – time for apple-picking. Sure, the pandemic has upset the applecart, and there are some restrictions, but you can still get a small group of family together for a trip to the local orchard. You probably can’t…
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Capturing Grandma’s Recipes
My Grandmother Dodge – my mother’s mother – served a taste sensation that I have been trying to recreate. It was a pie unlike anything I’ve seen or tasted since: A flaky one-crust pie with a thin layer of a…
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Making Do in the New Normal
The supermarket shelves are slowly getting back to normal. At least in the supermarket I frequent, flour, yeast, and of course TP are generally on the shelves. Still, some items I need are persistently out of stock: plain gelatin powder,…
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Summer Bounty: Put Up and Cut Up
How does your garden grow? Are you one of the many who has started a vegetable garden or expanded this year? Count me as an expander – with two new raised beds and adding bok choy, brussels sprouts, and eggplant…
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Add a Little Spice (Blend) to Your Life
In March 1959, when I was in the eighth grade, my family embarked on a monumental road trip from the freezing farmland to Arizona and sunny California via Route 66. That road trip would put National Lampoon’s Vacation movie to…
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Ditch the Stove
When it’s been hot for a long stretch, you’re not only tired of cooking over a stove; you’re also getting a little tired of those salads. Now what? To the rescue! Have you thought about a slow cooker, Crock-Pot, or…
