Retro Recipe Card Files: Tea Cake This is lost and recovered family recipe. This is my grandmother’s tea cake recipe. This is a treasure chest filled with memories of tastes, smells and textures. This is both history and the future. I’m a procrastinator. Going through papers and such gives me an anxiety attack. In […]
The Cheese Grater
The image above is not just an old, slightly rusty cheese grater. It is a an image of childhood memories spent in the kitchen with my mother and sister. The handle is no longer a vibrant red, the paint worn away by years of use. There were no food processors in home kitchens […]
The Ham That Saved Christmas
How can a ham save Christmas? Bet you think I’m still sipping some eggnog or champagne, don’t you? No, I am sober as the day is long. In my family we traditionally split holidays so one person does not have to do all the work. I do Thanksgiving and my cousin does Christmas. Well, this […]
