I made this last week and everybody in the family really liked it; that's pretty unusual.  It's almost straight out Pressure Perfect by Lorna Sass (where she calls it Curried Coconut Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas).  My only changes were to reduce the vegetable broth (and slightly reduce the starting amount of curry powder, lest I get too ( Read more... )

I brought this to the parents' lunchtime meeting at preschol today, and got some requests for the recipe, so here it is:

Savory Mushroom Bread Pudding

I got this recipe from the Craigslist Food Forum, where it was posted by a user named Ornellaia. I believe it's original to her. I've made soem changes; I'll give you my version, and in some places I' ( Read more... )

I thought I ahd typed this in once before, but none of the likely spots have it,a nd Google isn't finding it either.  It's from Woman's Day magazine, 12/15/1998.

Filling:
2 T + 1 T sugar
1 T lemon juice
4 tsp cornstarch
2 lb ripe fresh pears, soft types such as bartlett or d'Anjou (3 large pears might be enough)
3/4 cup thinly-sliced dried apricots
3/4 cu ( Read more... )

I made this to serve at our seder and it turned out really well.  It's adapted from "The Very Easy Chocolate Dessert" in Mrs. Fields' I Love Chocolate cookbook, and adding some principles from Penny Eisenberg's Passover Desserts ( Read more... )