There’s another ghost in my kitchen today. Her name is Olive. I got the ham bone from my family’s New Year’s Day celebration. And that means just one thing: split pea soup. It’s one of Christopher top five favorite dishes, and May loves it, too. My husband’s great grandmother, a Cannuk named Olive, was famed [...]
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Singing the hambone blues
Posted in my kitchen, traditions, Uncategorized, tagged feminism, split pea soup, tradition on January 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Cooking with ghosts
Posted in traditions, tagged baking, Christmas, shortbread, tradition on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My Christmas cooking list is lengthy and specific: Indian cookies, Neopolitans, short bread, stollen, boeuf bourguignon. Plus assorted candies, cookies, sweet breads. Indian Cookies are the taste of my childhood Christmasses: tooth-achingly sweet chocolate haystacks of coconut, oatmeal, and peanut butter. One of the earliest cooking memories I have was standing over my mother’s Revereware [...]
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