I’m attracted to chicken recipes. I grew up eating chicken, watched my mother, at lunch, pick juicy pieces of chicken off the bone of boiled chicken. For years I ate at KFC, but lately, I know I cook way better. Dishes made with chicken are tasty and they present a multitude of possibilities for the…
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Creamy Sweet potato soup with its skin, plus shallots
For nearly 50 years, I never cooked sweet potato soup or even heard of a recipe for it. But I ate the soup a few weeks ago at a restaurant; and decided to prepare it at home, since I loved its creamy texture with hints of tang and sweetness. The taste of sweet potatoes registers…
Glazed Lemon Pound Cake – a sweet dessert with pucker power
At the beginning of my fora into cooking and baking, which started fifty years ago, I never thought of using real lemons. Unknowingly I bought those plastic bright-yellow lemon containers. Naturally there was lemon juice in them, but who knows what else? It took me many years to discover fresh lemons, and their many benefits…
Split Pea-Barley, Potato-Turkey Soup
My siblings and I grew up eating luscious homemade soups, but, nothing that my mother cooked. We had a Hungarian housekeeper, Ann Kaufman. (Before Ann came to work for us, when I was 1 year old, she was married briefly to a Jewish man who died shortly after they married, that’s how she ended…
Pie crust (easy) for the holiday season
With a knife or a bench scraper, cut the dough in two even pieces, and form a low round disk.
Marilyn Raff 