My wife, the baker in the family, took one look at our recent harvest of overwintered carrots and knew what she had to make: carrot cake. I know what you are thinking: There could hardly be anything more mundane than carrot cake. But trust me: once you’ve made it with carrots you’ve grown in your […]
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 […]
Tags:baking·cake·eggs·food appreciation
I’ve had my near-death experience with rhubarb. When I was a boy, my father cleared a place for a garden behind our home outside Chicago. One day I came up behind him while he was spreading cow manure for the rhubarb bed and caught a tine from his pitchfork right between the eyes. There was […]
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