I want to sneak this recipe in before the strawberry season is over. This is an easy yeast dough coffee cake with fresh strawberries baked on top – a good starter recipe for anyone who is intimidated by yeast dough. The kuchen is best eaten soon after it comes out of the oven, because the strawberries on the warm dough are a particularly tasty combination. “Kuchen” is the German word for cake, but this recipe of my grandmother’s was more […]
No recipes, no flowers, no invitations – just this: I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
The Peach is the thing. If you have nice, ripe peaches for this dessert it will be heavenly! And it’s so fast to put together – you can even use Bisquick instead of the shortcake recipe if you’re pressed for time (I certainly have done that before). The vanilla sauce brings out the flavor of the peaches. And if there are leftovers, it’s good for breakfast.
…Come the simplest yet most satisfying of foods. One of my absolute favorites is corn on the cob. What could be more ordinary, right? Wrong. Like so many things in life, it’s all in the presentation. When I was a kid, we had a corn patch on our farm and I would be sent out on a summer day to pick a couple dozen ears and bring them in for lunch. That was all we would eat – a corn […]
