The Sun and the Sand and a Book in my Hand
I knew when I started this recipe project that I would have a few misses, and the brownies turned out to be my first miss. The flavor was not so bad, but the texture was just a giant fail. And to top it off, the…
Since it is now fall, I decided to kick off the season with a recipe that Carol had two copies of in her recipe box (they are both in her handwriting). To me, that means that it was something she must have liked! I adore…
I was looking through my recipes to find something to use zucchini that wasn’t bread/cake/cookies (because there are many of those) and came upon this really easy recipe. It mixed together quickly and even though we ate it that same evening, it was even better…
I suppose calling this “barbecued” is a bit of a misnomer since no barbecue or grilling is involved. However, there are some flavors of barbecue here in the sauce. Every year we buy a quarter of a beef, and there are cuts that we use…
Next up on the cooking journey was a batch of cookies. Let me tell you, this recipe makes a LOT of cookies! About six dozen. So this would be an excellent recipe to make if you need a large number of cookies for a particular…
The next recipe I made from Carol’s recipe box was Rhubarb bread. I know, I just recently made zucchini bread, but I had some fresh rhubarb from a local farm stand so I decided to make this recipe in order to use it. When my…
This recipe is in my Aunt Carol’s handwriting, although I don’t know if she ever made it herself. It is certainly a unique take on a carrot cake recipe as it includes a cup of sourdough discard, which gives the cake more of a tang.…
My grandma has quite a few recipes for pickles, relish, green tomato relish, and Spanish pickles (pickles with tomatoes). But all of them, save one, are for sweet pickles. I could only find one straight dill pickle recipe in the bunch, and it was very…
This recipe isn’t exactly vintage, as it was copied down in 1999, but as Grace says, it’s before she was born so that makes it “old” in her opinion. The name on this one is Cousin Suzanne, and I know that Suzanne is one of…
Do I know who Roxie is? No I do not, and that’s not from lack of trying to find out! The recipes I have came from a mix from both my aunt and my grandma, and I have discovered that a few came from friends…