Really, all I wanted from my wife the baker were a few tips for making a sweet potato pie. We have all these sweet potatoes harvested from the garden and sweet potato pie was pencilled in as dessert for our choucroute dinner. But as so often happens, making this pie would not be as easy […]
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This week we started a culinary world food tour in our “food appreciation” classes and our first stop outside the District of Columbia is the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where fall means apples. Kids love using a mechanical apple peeler. It used to be every family had one, apples were such an important food. We […]
What you see here is an angel food cake that started out with great hopes and expectations and ended in utter disaster. Why, you might ask, is The Slow Cook making angel food cake? Shouldn’t he be out tending his garden? The short of it is, we had a freezer full of frozen egg whites […]
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