Orange Cake: a sweet with a past
I found the recipe for this cake in a 1954 “Better Homes and Gardens”. I made it for Tina’s Halloween party and it was very appreciated. I could have eaten the frosting all by itself. Orange Cake preheat oven to 350°F 175° C grease and flour two layer/sandwich cake pans of 8″ diam 263 g sugar 190 g [...]

Pittule col Cavalfiore: cauliflower doughnuts
I thought I would give you something to ponder over the weekend. Cauliflower is in high season here and they are big, beautiful and cheap. I happen to really love cauliflower, but I hadn’t yet moved away from Indian and American to Italian ways with it in any sizeable way. I started [...]

Roasted baby Tropea onions
Now a lot of people will be happy to tell you how delicious Tropea onions are, but how many will cook you up a dish of immature ones and let you convince yourself? Snip off anything dry or dirty. Wash, trim, lay them in a shallow oven dish. Drizzle with good olive oil, a [...]

The 8 ball
I arrived on the address for this blog and found it gone missing! Nothing I did worked. Whatever worked is something I didm’t do. Be writing at you shortly. Judith

A Hot Breakfast
Anyone with an oven can make this. I went to a supermarket and bought a bag of ten frozen raw croissant. I followed directions by laying them on baking paper on a baking sheet and leaving them utterly alone, like Garbo, for 10 to 12 hours. When I looked again they were [...]