After cooking sweet potato soup, which was delicious, I’ve dug around the extensive sweet potato website based in North Carolina, and learned historical facts and viewed many recipes. Most of the historical information can be found on my recipe for the soup. But personally, I’ve discovered my own small tidbits about sweet potatoes. One, I…
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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…
(Latkes) Potato Pancakes – A Hanukkah Tradition
The warm crispy potatoes, with its soft center, tasted delicious when dipped in the cool cream…
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
Seasoned cabbage rolls with beef and rice
I remember eating and loving the flavor of stuffed cabbage as a child. As I faintly recall, the rolls were thick, the nearly translucent cooked cabbage was smothered in a red sauce that dripped off the sides; it tasted slightly sweet, but not too much. I know I loved the combination of moist beef and…
Tender pot roast aside caramelized onions and carrots, all topped with warm gravy
In our household growing up in the suburbs of Newark, New Jersey we ate pot roast fairly often. I don’t recall the side dishes, or what else came along with the meat, but probably the pot contained potatoes and carrots, onions naturally, and perhaps other vegetables. To this day, I’m not fond of potatoes in…
Roasted Potatoes with Bok Choy, String Beans and Sausage
one evening I was restless, so I browsed my stack of cooking magazines and saw interesting recipes, like the following one. It appeared different with roasted potatoes. Over the years I have been bored with boiled potatoes, so bland, simple, so this recipe caught my attention. Plus, I had several fresh veggies which needed to…
Marilyn Raff 