After much internet chatter on Facebook about what menu number the chicken livers were at the Susie Q was (the definitive answer is 16), I spoke to my brother Mike, and he told me how it was made. I, of course, made a few changes. First, I couldn’t use boxed pancake mix (too much salt and too…
Cracking the Cookie Code
Fans of my blog know that I make a lot of cookies. It has taken me a while to figure out that cookies are a science. Cookies have a formula that if followed can make home-made cookies easy. The magician is about to reveal his secret. If you follow these basic rules, you can produce…
Lemon Chess Pie
This one is for Bonnie; she has told me she loves lemon desserts. My brother Mike makes a great lemon meringue pie, so that is his turf. I have only done one southern chess pie recipe (the Baltimore bomb pie). That one was such a successful recipe that I decided to try a lemon version….
Amaretto Cream Brûlée for 2 (or for one who has a sharing problem)
This is one of my favorite deserts. I love the crack of the spoon on the carmalized sugar. The creamy goodness of the inside against the fresh berries. Oh and just had to add amaretto and some orange to introduce a little more flavor. I hope you like it. Quick note: I used too big…
Wait, I like greens?
Growing up in Detroit my experience with greens was iceberg lettuce and canned spinach. When we had a salad, we had a wedge of iceberg with two cherry tomatoes, a cucumber slice, and lots of blue cheese dressing that covered the bowl. Canned spinach – yum, what’s not to love about that? We had to…
