Fat Thursday is a traditional Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday provide the last opportunity for feasting (including simply eating forbidden items) until Easter. Traditionally it is a day dedicated to eating, when people meet in their homes or … Read more
I was tempted to write a long story about how when my great-great-grandmother was a girl she smuggled this Creamed Cabbage Soup with Kolbasz (Kaposzta Leves Fustolt Kobassza) recipe out of Hungary by sewing a copy of this in the hem of her skirt. That didn’t happen. For one thing, my grandmothers were variations of … Read more
Making pasta is one of those things that I never thought that I would fall in love with. Now, unlike this recipe I do go for the easy way- yes I have a pasta maker attachment for our kitchen-aid. You can also buy or cut roll it out and cut as the instructions say. Honestly … Read more
Ever find a recipe that makes your head tilt and no matter how hard you try you find yourself judging it? This is one of those recipes. I mean who *really* needs 1/2 gallon of French Dressing for at-home use? In addition, everything about this screams 1970s food (OK, the use of canned tomato soup … Read more
Insert a super long story about how this Fabulous Fudge Cake recipe was handed down by generations of women. It wasn’t. It came in a 3 pronged folder with a bunch of other cut out recipes that I got at the Salvation Army (back when they still had the as-is store (shakes fist at Covid-19)