Every Christmas, we would make cookie trays for friends and family. The one required cookie was Kringla. These are sweet, cakey cookies that go really well with tea or coffee. I make them every year because they are the one cookie that the boys request! The recipe came from an Iowa Church cookbook and, while …
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It all started with a blog post on one of my favorite blogs, 100 Day of Real Food. She had this recipe for Ebelskivers, which are apple filled pancakes. The recipe sounded great but I was even more intrigued by the pan. I then looked on Amazon for a pan to purchase and, in my research, …
Two Christmases ago, I started the sous vide experiment. Anova cooker Ever since, we have had great successes and a few failures. It is great for chicken breast, steak, pork lion, and rack of lamb (although I use freezer bags now after the bone punctured a regular bag. I have placed whole eggs in …
This Thanksgiving was full of a lot of firsts, so many, that we had to take a day to revisit the past. Today, we made my mother’s Thanksgiving meal – three days after. True to her recipe, the turkey was not brined, it was not stuffed with anything fancy but it was patted with a lot …
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