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  • And now for something a little different — and simple

    This 2008 Better Homes & Gardens prizewinner requires something which is probably a pantry staple, one burner and no oven. Child shut-ins can help organize the graham crackers, spread the filling and stir the no-cook icing. You could omit the toasted pecans for anyone who is allergic or maybe just put them in half the…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    May 9, 2020
    Baking, Baking with kids, Comfort food, Cookies
    Better Homes & Gardens magazine, Graham crackers, No-bake baking, pecans, Recipe with pantry staple
  • Lemony shrimp and bean stew — a mouthful of sunshine

    It’s an easy, healthy supper with a taste like a mouthful of sunshine — bright, in other words — and perfect for isolating at my country house (also my only house).

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    April 30, 2020
    Beans, Easy entrees, New York Times recipes, Soup
    Fresh lemon, parsley, Shrimp, Watsontown PA, White beans
  • You say frittaa-ta, I say frittah-da

    I am home-schooling only three dogs and five cats, but that’s plenty with the all-day in-and-out, in-and-out, in-and-out.

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    April 27, 2020
    Frittata, Healthy eating for the whole family, Supper, vegetables
    artichokes, eggs, Goat cheese, Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook, onions, The Splendid Table, zucchini
  • Cornbread for quarantine

    The little blue and white boxes full of sawdust are fine for “normal” times, but hard times demand the taste of browned butter ricocheting around your mouth like the silver shot in an old pinball machine.

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    April 23, 2020
    Bread baking, Comfort food, cornbread, Quick bread, Uncategorized
    Baking, Corn, Southern Living magazine
  • I have turned into my dog

    It’s true. I eat, I sleep and I am beyond excited when I to go for a car ride. That’s how I happened to try a 1997 Progressive Farmer recipe for Sweet Potato Bread in Week 4 of social distancing. I’m glad I kept it — it’s every bit as tasty and moist as the…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    April 8, 2020
    Baking, Bread baking, Quick bread
    cinnamon, Effects of self-isolating, Nutmeg & cloves, Progressive Farmer magazine, sweetpotatoes
  • Baking our way through the apocalypse — Amish cinnamon bread

    I know I’m not alone in this. The second day of our being in the house I started. Baking, that is. With and without yeast. Sweet and savory. My movie-star glamorous cousin Amy says the “Quaranfifteen” will prove as universal as the “Freshman Fifteen.” This sweet bread recipe was posted by Kitchen Goddess Eleanor. When…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    March 31, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • Figgy jam

    When they simmer for a little more than an hour with sugar, lemon juice and zest, something mysterious hangs in the background, behind the smell of sweetness. Something dark, serpents in the trees and jungle-y

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    November 1, 2019
    Cooking from the garden, Flavors of the Earth, Fruit, Preserving the garden’s bounty
    Figs, Gifts from the kitchen, jam, thespruceeats.com
  • A dearth of dessert can lead to overdoing it on sugar; apple raspberry crisp

    A dearth of dessert can lead to overdoing it on sugar; apple raspberry crisp

    Believe me or don’t, I don’t make a lot of desserts. We “shouldn’t” eat them; we don’t “need” them. Eventually, though, I’ll stay up too late, meditating on something sweet. Then I’ll eat too much  junk (although there’s not very much of that around here anymore) because no small serving of something sensational has appeared…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    September 10, 2019
    Desserts, Food habits, Fruit, Fruit crisps
    apples, Keebler cookies, pecans, red raspberries, Woman’s Day magazine
  • Why I can (and freeze and pickle)

    I enjoy preserving Stoic’s garden bounty (along with that of the Lynn St. Clair Orchard in Taylorsville) because it makes me feel like a good steward and because — of everything going on in my life — it’s the only process with a beginning, middle and end. I can actually see what I’ve accomplished, usually…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    August 8, 2019
    Cooking from the garden, Fruit
    cooking from garden, lemons, Oranges, Peaches, Sugar
  • Best bean salad ever — sweet corn’s the secret

    For as long as beans have been in my life, I’ve eaten bean salad. My mother made it with canned beans and bottled Italian dressing. Stoic’s mother made a big batch once when she and his father were leaving town on a trip, and Stoic ended up ice skating on bean salad after he dropped…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    June 29, 2019
    Beans, healthy cooking, Salad, Summer salads, Sweet corn
    Corn, Our State magazine, Peppers, Samin Nosrat “Salt Fat Acid Heat”
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