This is for all of my fellow students out there! As a precursor to finishing my last week of classes this semester, I decided to make some delicious cookies for classmates (teammates, y’all!) and professors. I invited two girlfriends from Denver to assist in my self-proclaimed Cookie Festival. The menu consisted of the following: [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Curried Sweet Potato Latkes with Applesauce
Posted in Vegetarian, tagged sweetpotato curry curried latke potato fried apple apples applesauce channukah jewish on December 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Depending on the time in my life or the parental (or grandparental) figure in question, I was raised either Christian, agnostic or atheist. We had a big ole Christmas tree every year and an Easter egg hunt, and I read Old Testament (Dan insists on Hebrew Bible) stories in little illustrated books that Mimi gave [...]
The Mimi Project: Love Spread on Celery
Posted in Appetizer, Quick Ideas, Southern, The Mimi Project, tagged celery, cheddar, cheese, mimiproject, pimentocheese, The Mimi Project, Vegetarian on December 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This summer we cleaned out my grandmother Mimi’s house, a herculean task (though it seemed more sisyphean at the time) which took a team of eight working in shifts a week to complete. Mimi now lives with my aunt, but she started life 93 years ago on that same parcel of land – and though [...]