Category: Recipes
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Pineapple with Mascarpone Cream
This is Sandra’s favorite dessert. I lost the original recipe and re-created it over time from bits and pieces on the internet and through trial and error. It think this is at least as good as the original. Ingredients Instructions Notes I think the original recipe may have had some rum in it. Try adding…
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Fennel and Cabbage Soup
Ingredients Instructions Notes This dish serves 2 hungry nomads. Home-made bone broth is best. You can add some meat or hot dogs. We had short ribs on the bone when we made the broth, so I added some of the meat after pureeing the soup. Just experiment. Cannot go wrong.
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Borscht
Ingredients Instructions Notes Having spent a good amount of time in the Soviet Union in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m very familiar with Borscht. And I still like it today! Cabbage is one of the main ingredients in Borscht, beside red beets, of course. But we are eating so much cabbage these days that I…
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Classic Streusel Cake
Inspired by a recipe I found on Janie’s Mill’s Website and modified to fit our own tastebuds. Ingredients For the Crumb Topping For the Cake Instructions For the Crumb Topping For the Cake Notes We don’t eat all at once, so we freeze individual pieces for later.
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Buckwheat Pancakes
Ingredients Instructions Notes This recipe is adopted from Janie’s Mill (Cecilia’s Buckwheat Pancakes).
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Blueberry Pancakes
Ingredients Instructions Notes A cast iron skillet works well. And so does carbon steel. Warm it up in advance and make sure it has the right temperature. I use it to melt the butter for the recipe as I prepare the ingredients. The stiffer the egg white, the fluffier the pancakes! Do not over-mix the…
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Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients Instructions Notes Any flour works, but I prefer a whole wheat, Einkorn, or Spelt. Adjust the baking time as needed for your oven. The original recipe called for 10+25 min of baking and I found that 10+10 min is sufficient in my oven. You can add shopped walnuts if you prefer. You can use…