As we near the end of 2025, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite recipes from the year and what I love about them. This is my favorite OLD recipe from 2025. In fact, it is the oldest recipe I’ve ever re-created with success. It is delicious! The recipe name labels it a ‘bread’, but... Continue Reading →
Vintage Eats Recipe: 1959 Anadama Bread
If I could confess to one culinary weakness, it is bread. I love all types – rolls, muffins, sliced, baguettes, yeast, quick, whatever. Knowing carbs from bread can convert to sugar in the bloodstream, I do try to limit myself somewhat, due to a familial history of diabetes. But, when I find a power bread... Continue Reading →
Hollywood History: Charlotte d’Avocato Aux Sauce Asperges
It’s rare that a vintage recipe has Hollywood provenance. Charlotte d’ Avocato Aux Sauce Asperges (Avocado Charlotte with Asparagus Sauce) is one! The recipe came Catherine Grady Crabtree’s A La San Francisco Restaurant Recipes (Crabtree Publishing, 1979). As the book title states, the recipes originated from restaurants in San Francisco. This particular one came from... Continue Reading →