by jlo | Oct 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Most American home cooks have a favorite recipe for pumpkin pie, perhaps handed down through generations. I confess (gulpingly) that I’ve never made one from scratch. At Thanksgiving and Christmas, making the pie has always seemed to be someone else’s job....
by jlo | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
We’ve met Bettina before, from the 1917 book A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband, in which newlywed Bettina learns to cook and keep house for herself and her husband, Bob. In this excerpt, “Hello, Bettina; this is Bob. What are you having for dinner...
by jlo | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Baked eggs are a wonderful and often overlooked treat. My own personal recipe for baked eggs, fine-tuned on hectic mornings during my office-worker-on-a-budget days, went something like this: “Melt some butter in a little dish. Swish it around. Break in an egg...
