Frozen Potential Originally posted on September 8th, 2021 In Discworld, Nanny Ogg would say “They make it with banananananas.” She knew how to start saying the fruit’s name but didn’t quite know how to stop. I’ve written down my basic recipe for banana bread long ago but was asked in a forum to be a little more … Read More →
Frozen Potential In Discworld, Nanny Ogg would say “They make it with banananananas.” She knew how to start saying the fruit’s name but didn’t quite know how to stop. I’ve written down my basic recipe for banana bread long ago but was asked in a forum to be a little more precise with the directions for fledgling … Read More →
Quick Cobbler For Cold Nights I know, I know. I’ve been lax in writing. The simple truth is that I haven’t had much interesting to say of late and life otherwise has consumed any spare time I would have had in which to communicate such tidbits. I’m still here. It’s still winter and blizzard-ing. And garden thoughts are at least … Read More →
Brownies Without The Brown I’ve never been a huge fan of chocolate. Sure I’ll take the odd piece from grand Swiss or French choclatiers and love a cocoa-laced red velvet cake at holiday but other flavours are more apt to tempt me. Vanilla for example. Or butterscotch. When the mood strikes for something like a brownie in texture and … Read More →
You'll Have To Trust Me That It Was Pretty. And Delicious. (edit: I forgot to take better photos after it cooled and before I got hungry for pie. Which honestly is most of the time.) No one really knows how chess pie got its name. Late comers have tried to bend the southern accent into justification (“It’s jest pie, Uncle Jed”) but the bottom line is … Read More →
If there were ovens in the wild The farm neighbour told me of a grand discovery across the road last weekend… blackberries. Something which I have a fond history with in fact. Seems they found a patch back in the brush on their side which means if I don’t already have some hiding on the edges of my own chunk of forest, … Read More →
Looks horrible. Tastes way better than the 60s. Guaranteed to irritate food hipsters. I read decades-old cookbooks and food magazines when I can find them. Sure many of the recipes are dated and politically incorrect but that’s the beauty and charm of digging into the culinary past. All of them can, at minimum, show me a time capsule of eating history or at most yield a recipe ready … Read More →
