Adventures of a Home Cook
In my house, Thanksgiving is synonymous with pie! Specifically apple and pumpkin pie. While my true heart lies with apple, pumpkin pie only comes once a year and it is all the more special for it. I have tried numerous pumpkin pie recipes in the …
When I was in highschool I used to attend a church retreat that had a formal evening dinner. Every year they served a full turkey dinner with all the fixings, including pie for dessert. My friend’s mother who I affectionately referred to as “Mom Gammon”, …
Returning to the kitchen after a weekend filled with feasting is always a bit of a challenge. After baking pies, mashing potatoes and basting for hours, all I want to do is fall into a tryptophane-induced coma and binge watch Netflix until Halloween. Then I …
Quiche is such a versatile dish! It can be a satisfying breakfast. Combined with a mixed green salad it becomes an elegant lunch or dinner. Quiche screams sophistication and shows you put in that little extra effort. It can be made entirely in advance and …
Every year when I was a little girl, my mother and great-grandmother would take me strawberry picking. I remember the joy of spending an afternoon under the warm sun, eating berries with their red juice dripping down my chin and sticking to my arms and …
Have you ever felt that you had an Achilles heel in the kitchen? I consider myself an adept home cook, and yet for years I was woefully inadequate in a basic culinary skill: pie crust. It eluded me, it frustrated me, it caused me no …
