Lost Recipes

Over the weekend my cousins in Queens gifted me with a recipe I had thought long lost to death. My grandmother on my dad's side passed away in the mid 90's. She was a terrible cook. All of her food was cooked until it had died a second death, turned to mush, and ceased to be palatable. She used bisquick for pizza crust for god's sake. But her pies were to die for, especially her pie crusts. Here I gift you with her recipe. I promise you the crisco makes it extra flaky and delicious, though I admit I've never encountered a recipe that encourages you to heat the fat in pie crust.

Pie Crust - makes 2 crusts

3/4c Crisco
1 Tblsp Milk
1/4c boiling water
2c flour
1 tsp salt

Scoop crisco & milk into a bowl. Add boiling water and whisk until the consistency of whipped cream. Add remaining ingredients. Mix until just combined. Turn out and knead a few times before dividing and rolling into two crusts.

I'm pretty sure she didn't even bother with chilling before rolling, what with the boiling water and all, but I'd have to verify with relations to be sure.

This was a big hit at Thanksgiving this year...



Recipe here: http://www.theklutzykitchen.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-part-ii-blue-cheese-almond.html

Recipe from SmittenKitchen. Overdid the pasta, but up for it with cheese! More at my brand spanking new food comic a wishful pantry.

I've posted 100 recipes over at my food blog Annainthekitchen! In celebration I made a chocolate cake. I expect a lot from a chocolate cake and I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Nice and rich but not too heavy, fudgey texture just on the verge of being brownie-like. There was going to be a layer of fondant icing but apparently icing and I don't get on. There were tears. Ah well, something to practice! For the full saga and the recipe go here.

my mom always used the left over turkey to make a turkey stock and cook down in a big pot of turkey congee :D
i decided to try it out this year and it turned out super yummy...i just have 8 tupperwares of it in the fridge... :P

I have heard people rave about how fantastic their prawn noodle is. Prawn Noodle has got to be one of my comfort food. It just brings back memories of sitting at my granny's place...slurping up a nice big bowl of noodles with all the yummy prawny broth...YUMMS!

The broth was very thick and dark. Obviously they have not stinged on making the broth flavourful.

The first spoonful of the prawn soup and I was smiling. It was full of "prawny" goodness. Def a flavourful stock.

The noodles was springy and cooked just al dente which is exactly how I like it. In essence I think I had three prawns, and they were all halved. I do wish they bothered to devine the prawns though, so I spent a bit of time picking at it.

Click here to read more of the review in detail and for one more picture

Here are pictures of the cake and cupcakes I made for my friend's daughter's second birthday. She is such a freaking adorable child. Her parents loved the cake and the birthday girl made enormous eyes, so I feel the task was successfully done!

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Part of my contribution to this years Thanksgiving Dinner was dessert. While my chocolate mousee disappeared, my pear tart never quite got out of the kitchen. That just means more for me as far as I'm concerned. It made a lovely Saturday morning breakfast.





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God.

Heya, with state budget cuts my kiddo's autism classes were significantly reduced. She desperately needs speech therapy so in an effort to raise the much needed funds, we are holding a little family fundraiser for her. If you or anyone you know might want to purchase one of these watches, please send them my way! They are 19.99+tx and all proceeds go towards her services! Thank you in advance! (They retail for $49.99)

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I like old buildings. I lived in two different houses growing up and they were both old - the one I was in during my teenage years had hardwood floors and a stained glass window and was over 100 years old. So I'm really comfortable in those types of places, and when I was living in Galveston they seemed pretty easy to come by - carriage houses and in-law apartments in old houses and old houses that had been converted into duplexes and that sort of thing. But every time I look for places in Dallas it seems I can only find apartments of the new, fully carpeted, central-air-so-the-windows-don't-open variety. Is there somewhere specific I could be looking if I wanted to rent an older place that wouldn't be outrageously expensive or dangerous?

Thanks a lot!

Could anyone recommend a place to get ceiling lights and fans (besides the big box stores)? Double gold stars for someplace that's inside 635. TIA!

Daring Bakers challenge this month wasn't baking at all! Instead, we rolled up our sleeves and made cannoli. It was the first time I'd ever deep-fried anything, and it turned out well!

I topped my cannoli with:
1. Dark chocolate and chopped hazelnuts
2. Chopped peanuts and peanut butter chips
3. Cinnamon chips (definitely my favorite! Mmm!)



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To read more about these delicious 3-bite desserts and see more photos (including one off-topic photo of our delectable Thanksgiving turkey), please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!

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I almost didn't do this Challenge.

Why? Because I hated Cannolli. Well, turns out, Mark loves Cannolli, my neighbor Chris loves Cannolli, Mark's boss and her family loves Cannolli, so it wouldn't be hard to get rid of them when I did make them.

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So a couple of months ago I found a great pumpkin yeast bread that I served with cream cheese whipped with maple syrup.

that bread also makes divine bread pudding. which is what I was wanting to make for thanksgiving...I have one spare loaf from previous batch but I wanted a bit more...so I set about making the bread - but it didn't want to rise. so I made do (and it was fine as there were SOooooo many desserts that what I brought was plenty)

but yesterday morning I looked at the dough and it had finally risen - but what to do with it as I didn't just want the pumpkin bread (I was getting a bit bored with it)

so I perused the king arthur site and got some tips from this recipe and even tho I didn't have raisins, I did have dried apples...I also added some maple syrup for moisture






I am very pleased with the results and this may become the bread I give out for gifts this year

More pictures, tips, and recipe at my blog HERE

When I was in Spain this summer I ate a lot of tortillas. They were our go-to when we were sick of fish in Cabo de Palos (didn't happen to me, but to other members of my family), when we didn't feel like eating heavy meat in Madrid, or when we wanted something to nosh on between lunch and dinner while drinking a lovely Alhambra beer. And now that winter is rapidly approaching, I think about sunny Spain a lot. Like, a REAL WHOLE LOT.

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