From I Dream of Dinner so You Don’t Have To by Ali Slagle
The second time I made it I used green lentils instead of red. Seemed to hold shape better. Serve on toasted buns just as you would their cousin Sloppy Joe.
Recipe from Joanne
Tag: food
Still celebrating
A guilty pleasure which many don’t understand. Pouring milk on cake. Usually I’d do it on a stale piece but this little piece was still fresh.
Here’s a 14 second video of milk being poured over a piece of Trader Joe’s Lemon Sheet Cake atop a nest of juicy blackberries.
A Bowl Full of Cherries (Not)
idiom- definition from Wikipedia
- An idiom (Latin: idioma, “special property”, from Greek: ἰδίωμα – idíōma, “special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity”, f. Greek: ἴδιος – ídios, “one’s own”) is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. An idiom’s figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning.
“sometimes used ….to mean just the opposite”
If you’ve been with me since the beginning of this blog (almost six years) you’ve probably seen one of my favorite posts from 2009. Shot in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Fiestaware bowl.
LIFE IS A FIESTAWARE BOWL OF QUEEN ANNE CHERRIES
“Fiesta® Dinnerware was designed by Frederick Hurten Rhead in 1936 and is now among
the most collected china products in the world.” Go to their website and see what colors were produced in which year(s). http://www.hlchina.com/fiestacolors.htm This bowl with the cherries was photographed on a balcony in Sheboygan WI in August.
Unexpected Spectacular Delight
Look what my daughter-in-law Nataliya found FREE on FB Marketplace Sunday afternoon. Yes, she was browsing through marketplace while she’s in Mexico thousands of miles away from Pittsburgh. Actually (2,893 miles)
Nataliya texted me and alerted me to this fabulous FREE cake being offered and I drove less than a mile to pick it up!
What a lovely pastry chef Marla Mae and her husband Logan who carried it out in a large white box with a window to peer in. Oh my!!!
They brought it out to my car.
Wait.
Let’s get it out of the car and take some pictures!!!
An impromptu party was about to take place.
Drove over to the neighborhood and pulled up to the curb just as my friend Barb was about get into her friend Sonia’s car. I yelled across the street-Baaaarb!!.
Barb and Sonia then changed their plans from going to the movies to see The Sheep Detectives and instead we all went inside Barb’s house.
Barb and Sonia got on their phones and invited a few friends and neighbors to come for a surprise cake tasting. One by one, everyone ooohed and ahhed when they arrived and saw what a fabulous cake awaited tasting!
Here’s a YouTube video of everyone’s responses to the gorgeous cake.
It was so generous that everyone got to take a piece home, too. There were raspberries and fresh strawberries and real pink roses and “The cakesicles are basically just cake pops with a chocolate shell” and raspberry macarons. Chocolate dipped strawberries decorated the numerals. Chocolate cake with raspberry preserves, buttercream. Delicious!
Here’s Marla Maes website.
If you live in Pittsburgh area and need a special cake……
Easy Egg Pan Clean Up
I heard about this method of cooking eggs so they don’t stick to the pan.
1. Heat your pan
2. Heat your fat (olive oil and butter)
3. Pour in beaten eggs (one minute video I filmed) click to watch
A pretty clean pan
Throwback Recipes 1965
In 2011 I started a blog of Throwback Recipes. I didn’t check the dates to see how long I kept it up but it was short lived.
Here’s an example of a post. My mother’s Chocolate Pound Cake Recipe
Last week at the Community Center I saw an old cookbook on the “Free Table” so I brought it home and found a handwritten recipe and a newspaper clipping and had fun going through the pages. It was from Lake Charles. Louisiana first printing in 1965
Raggedy Ann Salt Ornament
a Pea Salad
and Cornflake Macaroons
Farm Fresh Eggs
Saturday I helped out with Sheep Shearing day at Flower Hill Fleeces Farm.
of Tableten Podcast fame.
It was chilly in the barn.
At the end of the day, I was given a dozen farm fresh eggs from their chickens. Thanks Jodi. You can let the eggs sit on the counter until you wash them. Then they need refrigeration. I washed two and put butter and olive oil in my omelet pan to fry them up.
Here’s the short video of them cooking. Look at those vibrant yolks.
They were delicious.
Squeezing a Lemon
Water added to freshly squeezed lemon juice video 12 seconds long
A Recurring Theme
Popcorn. I like it. My sister does not.
My parents used to buy bags of Strawberry Popcorn Kernels and give them to us.
In Durand, Illinois. It was not strawberry flavored but red kernels like these pictured below.
I don’t care for microwave popcorn. I bought these two types at Soergel Orchards
Hot Cross Bun Season
https://youtube.com/shorts/um9YAMgJ2A8?si=A2C1u_lULigy2fOc Short video on YouTube
I did not split, toast and butter as recommended. Maybe tomorrow morning
It’s a short season. They remind me of childhood. These were purchased at FreshMarket this morning.