Another Birthday

Today I am taking a break from posting a vintage recipe as it is Miss T’s 18th birthday! I’ve got a fun vintage salad recipe coming up but today I bring you Chocolate Swirl-Espresso Cheesecake.  

Lily Wallace Corn Pudding

I’m getting a kick out of reading the recipes in my old cook books.  I admit it’s a bit of a challenge to find ones that I want to make and know we will enjoy eating.  The book I used today is The Lily Wallace New American Cook Book.  Lily Haxworth Wallace is listed as Editor-in-Chief and the copyright is 1945.  This book was given to me in the late 80’s by a neighbor whose name was Vivian.  She was a beautiful and classy older woman who recognized my love for cooking.

Gama’s Buttermilk Pie

I promised “vintage” recipes for the month of May.  I looked up the word vintage in the dictionary and turns out it is a word used to describe wine.  This may not be news to you, my savvy readers, but it was to me…in that it isn’t descriptive of other things with age.  Below is the description I found in the dictionary on my iMac.

vintage |ˈvintij|noun
the year or place in which wine, esp. wine of high quality, was produced.
• a wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year. • literary wine
• the harvesting of grapes for winemaking.• the grapes or wine produced in a particular season.
• the time that something of quality was produced: rifles of various sizes and vintages.

adjective
of, relating to, or denoting wine of high quality: vintage claret.
• denoting something of high quality, esp. something from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person’s work: a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure.

ORIGIN late Middle English: alteration (influenced by vintner) of earliervendage, from Old French vendange, from Latin vindemia (from vinum‘wine’ + demere ‘remove’).

I began to think, should I call it antique recipe month?  

I Hate Chiggers

Well, I’m just going to start by saying a weekend away does wonders for the soul, relaxes the body, strengthens the bonds, and allows time for reflection.  My weekend away with the girls was marvelous.  What a superb and interesting group of women I spent my weekend with.

Berry Berry Delicious

I’m outta here!  Temporarily, that is.  I will be heading out-of-town later this week with a bunch of girlfriends to have girl time and fun times down at the river.  The Guadalupe River in Texas is a wonderful place to unwind, relax, chill out, call it what you like.  

Brownie With A Bite

With April being declared the month of sweets I don’t seem to be posting as often as I would like.  The flip side to that thought is, I would have too many sweets covering the kitchen counter or the dining table and filling up my tummy.  

A Cookie To Share

I am not one to share my food, especially if it is sweet.  Well, truthfully I don’t like to share my food ever!  Not sure why.  You know when you go to a restaurant and everyone orders differently, offering others a taste of what they ordered?

April, A Sweet Month

This year is breezing by faster than I care for it to.   Looking back over 2012 and the beginning of my second year writing The Orange Bee blog I see that I’ve definitely had a theme for each month.  I’ll carry on with a theme in April and as far into the future as possible.  One of the elements in blogging is the challenge of what to write about or in the case of a food blog, what recipe to share.  

Tornado Time In Texas

I am so incredibly thankful to have a roof over my head and the Orange Bee kitchen today, words can not describe it.  Most of you probably heard about the tornadoes that blasted through north Texas yesterday leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.  One of those tornadoes came through my community about one mile from my home.

Yep, It’s Monday

I had plans to bake and bring you some delicious, sweet little recipe today….It wasn’t meant to be!  The water heater flooded my laundry room and storage closet this morning, which forced me to shut off the water to the entire house, until I could crank the knob on the dad gum thing to off.