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Pear and Butternut Squash Chutney

December 30, 2017 by Sheila

Pear and Butternut Squash Chutney

This chutney, with the cinnamon and cardamom, has the taste of India. Here I’ve served it with a cheese and cracker assortment but it would go very well with samosas, pakoras, dosas, dal, or rice. The cheese, starting at the top center and continuing clockwise are a local cheese called Hereford, which is like a […]

Filed Under: Fruits, Preserving, Sauces Tagged With: Asian pear, Asian pears, autumn, butternut squash, cardamom, chutney, cider vinegar, cinnamon, citrus, dried cherries, garlic, ginger, ground cherries, ground cherry, hot pepper, lemon, lemons, pear, pears, preserves, red hot pepper, shallot, shallots, star anise, Thai hot pepper, walnuts, winter squash

Grandma’s Apple Cake

October 30, 2014 by Sheila

Grandma's Apple Cake

This is the only thing I ever ate of my Austrian grandmother’s cooking. Every other Sunday we spent the afternoon at Grandma’s house. At 3 in the afternoon the dining room table, permanently covered with a padded plastic tablecloth, would be set with coffee and Grandma’s apple cake. Then would commence the perpetual discussion of […]

Filed Under: Cakes, Desserts Tagged With: apple, apple cake, apples, autumn, fall, German apple cake, heirloom apples, recipe

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