Curry Spaghetti is one of those recipes that I made out of sheer curiosity. It is exactly what it sounds like – spaghetti served with a curried tomato sauce – a combination that I had never seen in the wild and, to be honest, didn’t seem terribly appetizing. The only thing I had to commend……
Month: October 2021
Makina No Tsukemono (adapted from Nippon Ryori Syu, 1972)
Makina No Tsukemono is a quick pickled cabbage-and-peppers recipe in a nominally Japanese style. I’ve adapted the recipe from Nippon Ryori Syu, a 1972 cookbook compiled and published by the Intermountain District Council of the Japanese American Citizen’s League (JACL). The JACL today bills itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American/Pacific Islander civil……
Vintage Cookbook Review: A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes (1973)
Before moving to the Pacific Northwest I had never heard a hazelnut called a “filbert”. Nor was I all that familiar with hazelnuts. I’d probably had them on fancy Pepperidge farm cookies and maybe in a bowl of mixed nuts every now and again, but they weren’t quite a thing in the late 1990s. Nutella…
Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops (adapted from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, 1973)
Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops is easily my favorite recipe from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, transforming a usually bland and dry pork loin into a delicious weeknight meal. The fruit is arguably central to the flavor profile, but the recipe still showcases the toasty bitterness of roasted hazelnuts. It’s also deliciously old……
Western Filbert Burgers (adapted from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, 1973)
Western Filbert Burgers are a novel take on the humble hamburger patty, dressed up with a handful of Pacific Northwest hazelnuts. When we first moved to this part of the world we fell in love with the annual Filbert Festival in a neighboring town. Free admission but plenty to do; a perfect day out for……
Pumpkin Crumble Cake (Oregon, 2006, adapted)
Pumpkin Crumble Cake represents one of my rare attempts at baking. For a home cook I feel like I know my way around a kitchen. But everyone’s got their blind spots, and mine is baking. I don’t enjoy it and I’m not good at it, and despite a background in chemistry I’m especially bad at……
Sorrento Soup (adapted from Smart Shopper’s Cookbook, 1972)
Sorrento Soup is a hearty tomato-vegetable soup perfect for a crisp, autumn weeknight, one of a dozen or so excellent soups in Loyta Wooding’s 1972 Smart Shopper’s Cookbook. While ostensibly written for budget-conscious homemakers in the face of rising food prices, Mrs. Wooding’s background at Betty Crocker kitchens lends a sense of company-friendly sophistication to……
Soup Bagdad (adapted from Smart Shopper’s Cookbook, 1972)
Soup Bagdad is a warm and rich lentil-and-lamb soup punched up with a heavy hand of fresh herbs. Despite the long simmer time this is still a tractable weeknight meal, and requires very little chopping or active time. It’s also plenty hearty for a weekend meal. This recipe comes to me by way of Smart……
Oktoberfest Potato Pancakes (adapted from Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook, 1956)
Despite not having a lick of German heritage, the German language is spoken frequently in our house. My spouse and I both learned German in high school, and my daughter has two years of college German under her belt. None of us are anywhere near fluent but we’re fairly competent, enough for a week abroad……