Cooking from my mom’s recipe box has been an interesting experience. It’s not like I am cooking her recipes, she didn’t have recipes for most of what she made. Her recipe box is a collection of recipes she got from friends and family (including me), or clipped out of a newspaper. Although I mostly am…
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Stephanie’s Rugelach – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #9
Shavuot is coming up this week, and I associate rugelach with Shavuot. And…I found a rugelach recipe in my Mom’s recipe box…
Tuna Matzoh Lasagna
It seems that every year at Passover I try to make a matzoh lasagna, but have had varying degrees of success (or failure). Sometimes it comes out tasty, but it isn’t very healthy. Sometimes it is watery, sometimes it falls apart. But sometimes… Earlier this year, I was having fond memories of a tuna lasagna…
Passover Granola: This was also in my mom’s recipe box
In the spirit of exploring my mom’s recipe box, I am revisiting this post from a decade ago…Hands down, this granola is my family’s favorite thing I make for Passover. Even though it makes 2 quarts, I usually have to make it at least twice to get us through the week. (NOTE: this year, in…
Banana-Chocolate-Peanut Granola – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #6
This was a granola recipe I used to make. I revised it (see the blue ink) to incorporate what I happen to have in my house at this moment. It is still delicious! I think my husband at ¼ of if for breakfast the first day!
Making Khoresh Bademjun (Persian Eggplant Stew) in Sweden
I am in Sweden visiting my daughter and her family. We were invited to their Persian friends house for a cookout challenge – her khoresh bademjun v. my khoresh bademjun. Unfortunately, on the day of the challenge, their family was sick, so it was cancelled. Since I had already roasted 6 medium eggplants, it would…
Cornmeal Crusted Tilapia and Lemon Garlic Spinach – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #5 – sort of
“Sort of” Why, sort of? Well, these were two recipes my mom got from college-aged Andrea (me) in the early 80’s,
Broccoli Rice – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #4
When I was growing up, rice was something we only had when we ordered Chinese food. Well, that’s not totally true, there was Rice-a-Roni, the ever-present side dish. But really, can we count that as rice? It didn’t even come to my mind as rice until I typed the first sentence of this blog. So,…
Zucchini Casserole – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #2
Zucchini, mushrooms, tomato puree, and cheese – it’s a winning combination. This looked worth trying. I don’t know whose recipe this was, the recipe, like most, was in my mom’s handwriting, but she usually put a name on top. I have some guesses, I remember eating this (and not because my mom ever actually made…
Exploring mom’s recipe box – revisiting the 1970’s
While searching for some specific papers in my file box of my parents’ “stuff”, I came across my mom’s recipe box. A simple lucite holder of index cards. I had long ago taken out her own recipes, and my versions of those have been in my cookbooks (stuffed cabbage, sweet and sour meatballs, and noodle…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 