What’s For Dinner?

Today's fun activity was to finally get off my duff and try my hand at a dish I'd never attempted without Aunt Judy being right there in her kitchen...her potato salad. This concoction of hers was pretty much universally well-received, so much so that even Uncle Walter's family in south Georgia would insist she make it whenever they'd head south for a family reunion. When *SOUTHERNERS* who know something about potato salad won't touch anything…

It's been a very long time since I dusted off a particular recipe that comes to me from my Aunt Judy...her lemon velvet cake. I honestly can't remember the last time I'd made it but it's easily got to be 15 years or more. It's not that I don't like this cake...it's easily my favourite by far. And it's not particularly hard to make once you get past making some rookie mistakes on the first…

Nicholas had a request for his 17th birthday…bolgrács gulyás (literally “kettle goulash” in Magyar/Hungarian) owing to it originally being cooked in a cauldron over an open flame. I’d never made it before so I was a little bit nervous about how it would turn out. I’d needn’t have worried…the gulyás with spaetzle had rave reviews not only from Nick and Katie but my neighbours (who just found out there is a baby grandson due in…

Slainte! And so it begins… :) Erin go bragh! UPDATE: On the plate and in the mouth was quite another experience. My oldest son rated it 20 on a scale of 10…