Pear, Berry Charlotte-Ooh, La, La

Suzette, Betty, Madeleine, Melba, Victoria, Charlotte. What do all these names have in common? They were all names of women attached with the names of desserts-sponge, sweet bread, trifle, crepes, brioche. If you have never had one of these desserts, then you are surely missing some of the finest sweets that were probably made by…

Sweet Revenge

“Revenge is sweet, but not fattening”~ Hemingway. That quote is not true. I used to work in a law firm where the majority of the workers were women. If you work in any office anywhere where there are two or more people, food will always be around the office in every corner-count on it. There…

Simply Soup

I imagined all kinds of things when I was a kid. My favorite imagining was that I wanted to be a fish (Warning: this is not a fish tale). The closest I got to it was having a goldfish. Day in and day out, contained in a glass aquarium, my fish swam and ate. Some…

American Apple Pie

“As American as Apple Pie”- if you were born in this century, you’ve surely heard this. It’s means through and through American. Did you know that the apples we eat today were not born in the USA? Crabapples were the only native apples we had in this land. Apple seeds came over from Europe in…

Southern Plantations and Southern Cooking Influences Tour: Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina

I have a two month break before I head over to Germany for a month of bratwurst and kraut for October and I needed something to cook during that time. It’s hard for me not to think of something to cook. Been thinking about it since I was 15 years old. If you have followed…

Fish and Sweet Fried Plantains

Jamaicans love their fish, escoveitched. It’s a vinegary, carrot, onion bath over a fried piece of fish. Yes, I was skeptical too, but this was amazing. Fish are abundant everywhere in Jamaica, so this is just one of the many ways to make fried fish pop. The vinegar mixture consisted of vinegar, peppercorns, onion, carrots,…