i like to cook: June 2025

Sunday, June 22, 2025

reading watching listening loving eating

reading - all the sinners bleed by sa cosby

watching - season 2 of the traitors

listening - i have just discovered sierra ferrell

loving - the rain we've had the past few days

eating - still lots of easy dinners - stir frys, tacos, pasta

Saturday, June 21, 2025

egg salad and chive flowers on sourdough

Sunday, June 15, 2025

family recipes

i am done moving all my recipes that were saved on paper from the green binder and just laying around loose paper to my new notebook systems. i saved the best part for last - family recipes written out by my mom. i always thought she had the best handwriting. i wanted to make sure i had something handwritten by her to remember how cool her writing was.

i didn't even realize until just now that she too had a big binder of recipes for years and years, over time the binder broke, her way of cooking changed, and perhaps she even did her own cull of recipes. Now it's just some loose pages, some of which my dad gave to me.

I absolutely did not want to get rid of her originals, and I found (yet another) blank notebook in the basement, this one standard paper size, and pasted in her originals

my whole childhood and well into my teens, my mom would spend a lot of time and effort before christmas to make huge treat boxes for both sets of grandparents - cookies, chocolate, sweet bread, and her most excellent caramel corn. i always was recruited for this one, to do the stirring every 15 minutes. she would make so much of this every year, but it was so good and the only time of year we got to have it.

there is a 100% chance i will never make this cake, but i couldn't not keep the recipe.

please enjoy this magazine page from 1984 (!) which was a fancy ass meal when i was a kid. my mom never messed around and made the puff pastry, just the chicken, but i do remember this dish and i recall making it in my early 20's, the occasional time i was flush enough to be able to afford to buy both chicken AND bacon on my minimum wage paycheque.