Awesome from the Kitchen
Lemon Pound Cake
Can Lemon Pound Cake be an addiction? Merelyn had been in a habit of stopping at Starbucks on her way to work to grab a coffee. Usually having skipped breakfast, she would almost always grab a piece of their Lemon Pound Cake with her morning Chai. Before long, I’m pretty sure she was stopping for the…
Mom’s Banana Bread
When I started this project my mom sent me a stack of her old recipe cards. Some of those cards were given to her or written for her by her mother shortly after she got married. My mom got married very young and she admits she had a lot to learn in a very short…
Grandma Compton’s Eggs Goldenrod
Eggs Goldenrod is an old-school recipe. Near as I can tell, it first appears in print in the 1896 “Boston Cooking School Cookbook” by Fannie Merritt Farmer as Eggs ala Goldenrod. The classic rendition was a simple thin white sauce with the finely chopped whites of hard boiled eggs mixed in, served over toast points,…
Mom’s Tomato Mac n’ Cheese
My mom was recently in town visiting and we got to talking about food and old recipes. As a kid, we had a few staples that were part of the normal rotation. These were Mom’s go-to recipes that were either quick, easy, or fit our usually-tight budget. One of those classic go-to favorites in our house…
Lemon Pound Cake
Can Lemon Pound Cake be an addiction? Merelyn had been in a habit of stopping at Starbucks on her way to work to grab a coffee. Usually having skipped breakfast, she would almost always grab a piece of their Lemon Pound Cake with her morning Chai. Before long, I’m pretty sure she was stopping for the…