Food

Okay – back off already – of course I want to save the whales too! But please, don’t toss the ham bone.

Now – daily exercise. Raise your hand if you have leftover ham or a finely whittled spiral ham still in the fridge? Me too! Well – the other day I did. Today I have split pea soup. I wanted to get this on asap – and I know that some people have spiral hams on New Year’s too so keep this in mind.

Old recipes often deliver somewhat less than we think they promise. It’s not always clear why.

Sometimes I think modern appetites demand more flavor than our forebears expected. I know my spice rack is at least twice as big as my mother’s was.

Sometimes the recipe calls for ingredients that were practical and available at the time, but a global economy and modern canning and freezing techniques make fresher food available to us.

I had you at Sanders, didn’t I?

For those of us who grew up in Detroit or the ’burbs, was there anything better than a Sanders hot fudge cream puff? So good. My grandma always made me eat my tuna salad sandwich first – which wasn’t too hard to do since the tuna was so wonderful. Do you remember the paper cones for water? So cool, even before retro was retro!

Is a bagel just a donut with the sin removed? Is a bagel just an unsweetened donut with rigor mortis?

No, and No! A bagel is the basis for a really awesome appetizer!