The warm crispy potatoes, with its soft center, tasted delicious when dipped in the cool cream…
Tag: food
American Goulash: My Version of a Hamburger Classic
I’m a fan of ground beef. I like it simply prepared as a hamburger, or added in stir fries, mixed in casseroles, and added to so many main dishes. Hamburger meat often comes to the table with assorted ingredients like tomatoes, onion, celery, beans, cheese, plus many vegetable choices. Sauces too are a popular ingredient…
No Question, an Easy (and Quick) Pork Shoulder Recipe
I’ve always liked Chinese food, possibility because of its saltiness, with ingredients such as Hoisin, soy and oyster-flavored sauce. When my husband and I go out for Chinese food we often, as an appetizer, share an order of barbecue spare ribs. Some restaurants offer meaty ones, other times their selection seems “painted” with red food…
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.
Glazed, Pan-roasted, and Marinated Chicken with Lemon
Since childhood, chicken has always been a tasty meal, cooked in all its glory, many different ways. Along with my siblings and I, we ate chicken fried and roasted, and other ways too such as chicken a-la-king, a great way to use up leftover chicken. Our housekeeper, who worked for us from the time I…
Chicken Florentine soup with zucchini, mushrooms, potatoes and barley
50 minutes later, I spooned toothsome,fluffy barley into my soup
Double chocolate brownie–honey sweetened
Since childhood, I’ve loved chocolate, nearly every form, from Hershey’s milk chocolate bars,(with or without nuts) to thickly iced cupcakes, to brownies and layer cakes. The brownies I first encountered happened when I visited my father,Irving, a baker, at one of his six bakeries in Newark, New Jersey. Baking was his business for several decades…
Peanut Butter and Cream Cheese Frosted Chocolate Chip Banana Cake with Toffee Crunch.
Although my father, a baker and owner of 6 bakeries in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940s and ’50s died when I was 10 years old, I still inhaled his baking passion. My father attended law school and worked a bit in government, but, when his father aged, my father was chosen, among 3 other…
Tender, Juicy Leg of Lamb alongside bok choy, red peppers, and roasted potatoes
I remember, from my childhood, eating succulent loin lamb chops for dinner. We ate them regularly, gobbling up every bit as us kids, my three younger siblings and I, chewed them down to the bone. What a luxury it was, I see now, upon an adult reflection. Price wise, these choice ribs can cost nearly…
Marilyn Raff 