my legacy to my children
Stamppot Boerenkool is a traditional Dutch supper made with potatoes, kale and sausage, topped on your plate with butter and vinegar. Oma would fry the Sausages while boiling the peeled Potatoes in water with washed and shredded Kale to make the Sausage nice and crispy, but other Omas boil the sausage right on top of…
This is a playdough recipe that reminds me of the kind my mother used to make. If stored snugly in airtight plastic bags, it can stay soft and squishy for up to three months! Be careful that this dough does not get eaten by human nor animal. In a non-metal bowl, soak: 3/4 cup Epsom…
A Helpful and Ever-changing List of My Preferred Botanicals (and how I like to use them) Essential oils are the essence of plants. The plant is processed by someone else in a mysterious way until a concentrated oil is produced. This oil is very strong and is usually too powerful to be applied directly to…
There’s the story of the selkie who shared her life with a human. No matter how deep the love between them, no matter a deeply she loves and cares for their children and their home, the call of the ocean beats loud upon her heart. A depression sets in to her body because her human…
Beppe’s Tomato Soup Cake recipe “Beppe” is the nickname of love my children had for the woman who is the mother of their father. One of the things my husband remembers fondly about his mother is that she would bake this delicious cake. Beppe passed on to peace back in 1998. One way to honour…
Spreadable Butter Butter is great, but when you store it in the fridge it is hard to spread it on your toast, isn’t it? With an electric mixer, blend until smooth, 1 brick butter and 1-2 cups (the amount depends on how soft you want your butter to be) Olive Oil. Now you can store…
White Sauce (Roux) In a pan, melt, whisk, and cook: 3 Tablespoons Butter 3 Tablespoons Flour 1 cup Milk a pinch of Salt Put the butter in first, and as it melts add the flour. Use whisk to make sure this is smooth and not lumpy. Before it gets too hard, add the milk and…
Corn Bread (as a meal) Finished product will be sausages, onions and mushrooms chopped up and baked inside a square pan of cornbread. You can prefry the mushroom, onion and sausage pieces before stirring them in to the recipe if you want, but they can be stirred in uncooked as well. Serves nice with tomato…
Wacky Cake: A cake recipe so easy, so crazy, so moist…it’s simply wacky!! Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit Stir together in a large bowl: 3 cups Flour 2 cups Sugar ½ cup Cocoa 2 teaspoons Baking Soda ½ teaspoon Salt Add: 2 cups Cold Water ¾ cup your favourite cooking oil 2 teaspoons…
November 30, 2011: That time when I asked my son Jake to help me make some bars of soap. I started by finding and collecting the supplies that we would need: Molds: I decided to use the containers that Pringles chips come in as molds. They create a nice sized round disk shaped bar, and…