Today being Throwback Thursday (and therefore time for a Memories of Meals Past post), I’m going to write up a recipe for a pie I made last weekend. I went to a St. Patrick’s day party last Saturday, and all the guests were supposed to bring drinks, but seeing as it was also Pi Day, I decided…
My Oma’s Pancake Recipe, and more of that Everlasting Ham!
I was ill a few weeks ago and after recovering, the only thing that I even felt remotely like eating, was my Oma’s (grandmother’s) pancakes. My mother always made these pancakes for Pancake Tuesday, with savoury ones for the dinner and plain ones with sugar for dessert. Mmm…pancakes! While my family calls them Oma’s pancakes, they’re actually more like…
Memories of Meals Past: A Pink Cake & How to Make Your Own Food Colouring
‘Twas the DH’s birthday this past weekend, so I made him a cake. I asked him what kind of cake he would like; strawberry, he said! So a strawberry cake I made. It was a three-layer cake, and had strawberry-buttercream icing between the three layers, and as the crumb coat, and then the outside was frosted…
BCM: Lemon-Glazed Madeleines and Changing Things Up
Usually when I make a recipe for my bake-a-long group, I tell myself after the fact that I should have halved it, because the recipe always makes more than the DH and I should really eat by ourselves. However, for today’s recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi, I actually quadrupled the amounts! Instead of only…
Memories of Meals Past: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing. And Fibre.
Continuing along with my throwback Thursday series, Memories of Meals Past, here is today’s contribution: Last week was my mother’s birthday, so I baked her a cake. She’s not really one for your typical extra-fluffy-sugary-sweet-icing birthday cake, so I made her a carrot cake. My parents had come over to our end of the city…