February 2021 – Page 2 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Note to Self: Spring Always Comes

February 18, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bouquet, cobalt blue glass, flowers, light, photography, postaday, Spring, tulips, winter 15 Comments

Our Grandmother Made This

My sister sent me this photo of the doily our paternal grandmother made. It sits on a chair at my sister’s home. Years ago, I’d stitched it onto the solid fabric pillow.

It’s a good way to display an old fashioned hand crocheted doily. The shape suggests it was to protect the chair back where your head would rest.

Certainly we’ve spent a lot of time at home this past year.

February 17, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: crochet, doily, family, grandmother, guest blog, home sweet home, NYC, photography, pillow, postaday 16 Comments

In Friendship Park

Right behind West Penn Hospital. This little green space,(white today) is between two neighborhoods Friendship and Bloomfield.

February 16, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Bloomfield, city scene, Friendship Park, Froendship, neighborhood, park, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, snow, weather, winter 7 Comments

PĄCZKI is pronounced Poonch-Key or Punch-Key

Happy Fat Tuesday.

Today some friends brought over this fancy box of Pączki from the Oakmont Bakery, decorated with a Mardi Gras mask. What a nice surprise to find on the porch. Steve and I cut one in half and shared it.

Later we cut another one in half and shared it. So a total of one apiece but two different fillings on Monday.

Looking forward to Tuesday’s sampling. The idea is to eat the last of rich fatty treats prior to Ash Wednesday that marks the beginning of Lent.

Two years ago I posted how my friend Donna introduced me to Pączki in the Brookline neighborhood Party Cake Shop bakery. (pronounced Poonch-Key or Punch-Key)
Pączki means “little package” in Polish. It is a traditional filled baked good fried in deep fat and filled with different fruit or cream fillings. They can be glazed or sugared on the outside.

Bakery Case in the Party Cake Shop in Brookline

Here is a fruit filled one. Some have custard or cream. Pączki is from 2019 post at Party Cake Shop Bakery

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Ash Wednesday, bakery, Brookline, Christian holiday, doughnuts, fat, Fat Tuesday, Lent, Mardi Gras, Oakmont Bakery, Party Cake Shop Bakery, Pittsburgh PA, Polish baked goods, tradition 17 Comments

Presidents on a Teapot – 1966

LBJ is the last president printed on it.

My friend Joanne give me teapot.

Monday February 15 is Presidents Day-clickHistory here

The date imprinted on the bottom of the teapot is 1966. Not sure if newer versions of Presidents on a teapot exist.

February 14, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Federal Holiday, friendship, holiday, photography, postaday, President's Day, tea, teapot 12 Comments

Signage in NYC

My sister saw this sign outside the West Village Knit & Needle and sent me these photos.

February 14, 2021 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: city scene, Greenwich Village, Guest blog., neighborhood, NYC, photography, postaday, signage, Valentine's Day, West Village Knit & Needle, wool 9 Comments

February Morning Light

February 12, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: light, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather, winter 8 Comments

Bicycle Seat in Bloomfield

February 11, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bicycle, Bloomfield, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, snow, winter 11 Comments

Find the People

NorthSide Rooftops with Snow

February 11, 2021 by Ruth Categories: architecture, Photography, Pittsburgh Photography, WeatherTags: architecture, city scene, neighborhood, Northside, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, snow, winter 12 Comments

The Complete Prune Cake Recipe

Yesterday’s post recipe link had a very strange symbol when there was a fraction involved in the amount of a few ingredients.

Sorry about that.

Good thing I have several eagle eye readers to alert me. Here’s the the entire recipe.

I’m thinking the baking is 325 degrees and not 300 as recipe says but that cookbook was from 1984.

Bake until done.

(Also I’ve used a stick of butter and 1/2 c of olive oil together when I didn’t have good vegetable oil in the pantry) I omit the nuts as my kids didn’t care for them but they are in the original recipe.

Here I’ve declared n kno this recipe COMPLETE. Yikes, I don’t see the 1 tsp allspice in this recipe I’m posting today. Be sure to include it.

Still best the second day after baking. I see I wrote “Best cake you’ll ever eat.” I would say now, “that’s debatable!”

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: 1984, baking, Beaumont Inn, cake, cookbook, Harrodsburg Kentucky, photography, postaday, prune cake, recipe, stained page 5 Comments

Month: February 2021

Note to Self: Spring Always Comes

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Our Grandmother Made This

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In Friendship Park

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Presidents on a Teapot – 1966

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Signage in NYC

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February Morning Light

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Bicycle Seat in Bloomfield

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