Category: Recipes

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do you remember what you learned to cook first?

Here is a Scandinavian Mushroom Cookie that goes by a different name and shape in each country in which it is made... and it was my father-in-law's favorite! CLICK on the above picture for the recipe

Now cookies and desserts weren’t the first thing I learned how to make as a child… but it was the first category of edibles that caught my attention!

Frankly, the first thing I learned how to make was to prepare rice by boiling. I wasn’t very old and I had to use a chair to get to the controls of the stove, but one afternoon when my mother was off, I measured our a portion of rice added salt and water and made myself a nice snack. We didn’t have butter in those days, so a slice of margarine made the meal complete and headed off to my room to devour my creation! This would have gone unnoticed , except for the fact that I left stove on under what small remained of the rice and it carbonized! I learned an important lesson that day… to hide my tracks!

Making the cookie is a multi-step process of rollong out the stems, making the caps and then assembling it all with a nice frosting as a glue!

There is nothing quite like a mushroom cookie to allow you to sit back and enjoy a nice cup of tea or coffee!

This year, I am starting early with cookie making... but then, I normally don't 'diet' this time of year and it is 'therapy!'

Bon Appetite!

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Stuffed Bell Peppers helps the diet along

On a diet? Well each one of these are around 300 calories plus each... sometimes more. CLICK on the picture to read about it and the recipe in the step by step process.

The above version departed slightly from the original recipe incorporating lean ground pork and lamb with the bacon and a spicy curry flavoring to the rice… oh yes, our  five chef’s marinara  sauce completes it!

Bon appetite!

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oh yum, it’s fruit bat pie tonight! again

Tired of the same old leftovers?? Try something new tonight! Try Fruit Bat Pie From Pilau!

Oh yes, I think we know what this is all about! My daughter Kristin was visiting the Island of Pilau and had one of their — uh — dare you eat it delicacies called Fruit Bat Pie. Judging from how it looks the recipe seems fairly simple: 1) catch a fruit bat, 2) boil ’em 3) bake ’em in a pie and 4) eat ’em!

Don’t you love to eat something that can look right back up at you?

Bon Appetite!

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It seems nutty, but it’s an apple pie

Apple Pie
Oh yes, nuts really add something wonderful to an apple pie! ... CLICK on the picture for the basic step-by-step recipe

We’ve had a very strange year around our apple ‘orchard’ ( now two trees). What makes it strange is that normally we have the stove going continuously baking pies and then apple sauce. Two years ago, after making a dozen or so pies, I filled one entire freezer with prepared apple sauce that lasted until about 6 months ago. Laura didn’t complain as home made apple sauce is her favorite snack after dinner.

I rushed this pie out as I had a bunch of things I am preparing for the fall, but I think I am unlikely to get more than one more pie from our trees. Weather does that sort of thing around here.  Normally I like to glaze almonds for the top of my pies , but I used what was at hand and I think it will be fine. This pie will go into the freezer for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

My See’s Canyon Apple Pie Recipe