Fresh Ginger Root & Cinnamon, BlackBerry Shots, Golden Valley, Minnesota, November 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. During the Holidays, friends and family shared two cranberry dishes that were so delicious, I’ve saved the recipes for next year. I thought I’d post them on red Ravine so they would be easy to [...]
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Zesty Cranberry Salsa / Cranberry-Orange Relish
Posted in Family Recipes, Food, Holidays, Photography, Practice, Seasons, tagged cinnamon, cranberries, Cranberry-Orange Relish, fresh cranberries, ginger root, great cranberry recipes, Holiday recipes, salsa recipes, Zesty Cranberry Salsa on December 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Vintage Photos & Family Recipes — Simple Taco Soup
Posted in Culture, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Growing Older, Holidays, Home, Life, Love, Personal, Photography, Relationships, tagged blended families, comfort food, connecting through handwriting, easy to make recipes, family legacies, family memories, family photos, family traditions, food and nurturing, food memories, gift ideas, gifts that keep on giving, how to make Taco Soup, memory makers, passing down family recipes, recipe cards, Simple Taco Soup, snapshots, Taco Soup, the most meaningful gifts, the value of photographs, things I learn from my family, vintage photographs on December 1, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Simple Taco Soup 1 lb. lean ground beef 1 can whole kernel corn 1 can Mexican chili beans 1 can pinto beans 1 can kidney beans 1 large can petite diced tomatoes 1 package taco seasoning mix Brown ground beef and stir in the taco seasoning. Add canned veggies and simmer until flavors are blended [...]
Got (Soy) Milk?
Posted in Body, Bones, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Growing Older, Love, Random, tagged anti-menopause foods, cafe con leche, coffee, comfort food, Food, food habits, leche con cafe, morning rituals, rituals, soy and menopause, soy beans, soy milk, soy milk and coffee beverage recipe, the benefits of soy milk, the coffee habit on June 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Got (Soy) Milk?, morning fix of soymilk and coffee, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. I picked up my milk habit in Granada, Spain, in 1986. There my morning ritual was to walk out the door, hop the narrow cobblestone road to the bar across the way, and order a tall glass of [...]
A Christmas Gift From Dad
Posted in Essay, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Holidays, Life, Love, Personal, Relationships, tagged Albuquerque, Christmas gifts, family legacies, family memories, family traditions, fathers and daughters, food memories, Lita Sandoval, memories in food & cooking, passing down family recipes, recipes, red Ravine Guests, Tequila Shrimp, the most meaningful gifts, writing about fathers on December 22, 2009 | 26 Comments »
By Lita Sandoval Let’s just say that 2009 has not been my best year. I was laid off from my job in January. I accepted a position for another job soon after I was laid off and it turned out to be a terrible situation. I quit within three months. To add to the stress [...]
1-2-3! Apple Pie Gluten-Free!
Posted in Family Recipes, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Life, Love, Photography, Place, Relationships, Seasons, tagged apple harvest, apple pie, apple pie filling, Celiac, Corrales apples, easy as pie, gluten-free apple pie recipe, organic apples, what to do with all those apples, Whole Foods gluten-free pie crusts on October 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »
1. 2. 3. Apple Harvest Pie Gluten-free pie shells from Whole Foods: As with Everything-Whole-Foods, these pie shells are pricey ($7.99 for a package of two shells as of yesterday) BUT in this case, they’re worth the cost. I use both shells to make one pie. (Also, you could buy a Gluten-free pie shell mix, [...]
Kansas City Writing & Bob’s Scalloped Oysters
Posted in Family, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Laughing, Life, Love, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Structure, Travel, Vision, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged Aunt Annie's Scalloped Oysters, childhood foods, comfort food, Ernest Hemingway, friends, Hemingway, Kansas City, Missouri, not being tossed away, scalloped oyster casserole, the structure of writing, writing community, writing friends, writing groups, writing practice, writing retreats on April 28, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Bob’s Scalloped Oysters, dinner at a writing retreat in Kansas City, Missouri, April 2009, photo © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Last weekend I was in Kansas City, Missouri for a short writing retreat with three other Midwest writers. We did Writing Practice, slow walked, sat in silence, and recalibrated our project goals [...]
Aunt Annie’s Scalloped Oysters
Posted in Essay, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Place, Topic Writing, tagged Bob Chrisman, childhood foods, childhood memories, comfort food, excavating memories, family memories, Family Recipes, food and culture, food memories, red Ravine Guests, scalloped oyster casserole, the 1940s, the value of photographs, Velveeta, Velveeta recipes, writing about food on March 23, 2009 | 71 Comments »
By Bob Chrisman Here’s to you, Aunt Annie!, image © 2009 by Bob Chrisman. All rights reserved. A cup of tea with sugar brings back memories of my first cup, the day my mother said, “You’re old enough to drink tea.” Sacks of pale orange “circus peanuts” remind me of the stale ones in [...]
WRITING TOPIC — VELVEETA CHEESE
Posted in Family Recipes, Food, Life, Photography, Writing Topics, tagged Aunt Erma's chile con queso recipe, cheese, cheese products, chile con queso recipe, history of Velveeta, nacho cheese recipe, processed foods, Velveeta, Velveeta and chile dip, Velveeta cheese dip, Velveeta cheese sauce, Velveeta facts, Velveeta in crock pot, Velveeta ingredients, Velveeta recipes, what is Velveeta, where to find Velveeta in the grocery on January 18, 2009 | 28 Comments »
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Tamales – A Christmas Tradition
Posted in Culture, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holidays, Home, Love, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged chile, Christmas traditions, history of tamales, how to make chile meat for tamales, how to make masa, how to make tamales, masa, Mexican foods, New Mexican foods, New Mexican tamales, photos of how to make tamales, tamale recipe, tamales on December 25, 2008 | 28 Comments »
With the preparation being so labor and time intensive, tamales became holiday fare, made for special occasions. This tradition remained for thousands of years, with the women of the family working together to make the sauces and meats, preparing the masa, and finally assembling and wrapping the tamales before steaming them in large pots on [...]
WRITING TOPIC – FLANNEL SHEETS
Posted in Family Recipes, Food, Seasons, Writing Topics, tagged bedding, bedding preferences, cotton sheets, flannel sheets, flannelette, Red Flannel Hash on November 15, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Winter is nearly upon us, which means flannel sheets are upon us, too. Or not. Depends on whether you’re the type who likes flannel sheets. Some people don’t. Some people feel smothered by the extra weight and warmth. Sure, flannel sheets are snuggly when you first hop into bed, but once the body tempature rises, [...]
Man-made Popsicles (aka Tales Of An Odd Pop)
Posted in Family, Family Recipes, Food, Laughing, Life In Letters, Photography, Seasons, tagged homemade popsicles, magazine recipes, male Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart wannabes, Minty Grape Pops, popsicle recipe, popsicles, Self Magazine recipes on August 18, 2008 | 30 Comments »
Odd Pop, Jim’s homemade mint-grape popsicle (recipe from Self magazine), photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Minty Grape Pops Adapted from the August 2008 issue of Self magazine. The original recipe is attributed to Jennifer Iserloh, founder of Skinny Chef Culinary Services in New York City. 1/2 cup [...]
Flathead Cherries Are In Season – Try These Blondies!
Posted in Bodies Of Water, Family Recipes, Food, Nature, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged Cherry Blondies, Flathead Cherries, Flathead Lake, Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, living in Montana, Montana, Northwest Cherries, summer, summer baking, summer in Montana, summer jobs, writing about food, writing about place on August 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Sweet (Flathead) Cherry Blondies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Flathead cherries are in season! When I lived in Montana in my twenties, I spent one summer at the top of a ladder near Flathead Lake, handpicking cherries. It was hard, tedious work; I wasn’t that good at it. But [...]
Southern Scratch Biscuits (Closest Thing To Home)
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Family, Family Recipes, Film / TV / Video, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Growing Older, Home, Life In Letters, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Place, Relationships, Secrets, tagged Amelia's kitchen, favorite cookware, grandmothers, Maryann Byrd, memories in food & cooking, mothers and daughters, passing down family recipes, Southern cooking, Southern Scratch Biscuits, The Rise of the Southern Biscuit, traditions, vintage, who invented canned biscuits? on July 7, 2008 | 52 Comments »
Scratch Biscuits & Tea, Aunt Cassie’s antique teapot, Central Pennsylvania, November 2007, all photos © 2007-2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Last November when I went home for Mom’s 70th birthday, she made Southern scratch biscuits. I’m heading home again next week, and I’ve been chatting with her on the phone, comparing notes on [...]
The Cult Of Frito Pie
Posted in Culture, Family Recipes, Food, tagged chile meat recipe, Daisy Dean Doolin, dime store food, Frito Pie, Frito Pie in a bag, Frito Pie ingredients, Frito Pie origin, Frito Pie recipe, Frito Pie with chile, Frito Pies and Santa Fe, Fritos, history of Fritos, how to make Frito Pie, New Mexico foods, pinto bean recipe, Santa Fe, the best Frito Pie, Woolworth's on June 16, 2008 | 48 Comments »
First time I ate Frito Pie was in 1985, at the old Woolworth’s store on the Santa Fe Plaza. I sat on a vinyl swivel barstool in the back of the store, behind miniature Indian drums and dreamcatcher souvenirs. I think my friend and roommate, Denise, was with me. The counter help handed us each [...]
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