platefullofmemories: Recent Comments

Comment on An Award Winning Chicken Soup

2010-02-09T18:54:26Z

Just wondering how long I have to cook my mothers chicken soup before I can call it my chicken soup? I never had Lauren's mother's soup but I have eaten Lauren's chicken soup a lot. I need to ask her if it is her mother's recipe or one she discovered somewhere else...

Comment on My Recipe to Stay Warm is Create a Traditional Family Soup Cookbook

2010-01-14T15:56:13Z

I was asked off line about what the difference there was between Martha's recipe and my mother's recipe. There was very little except my mother swears using a pullet makes all the difference in the taste of the broth. And Martha did not cook her soup as long as my mother.I will try in Martha's way and let you know if I can tell the difference. AND lastly, NY Times this morning reported that chicken soup does help with the common cold. Another time my mother was right!

Comment on My Recipe to Stay Warm is Create a Traditional Family Soup Cookbook

2010-01-13T15:39:54Z

Yesterday I received Martha Stewart Living and she does a bang up job on soups.Here is a woman after my mother's heart. She starts with the basic chicken soup and then adds from there: Columbian Chicken soup,Spicy Indian Chicken soup, Thai Chicken soup and the fest del reisonce is the Hearty Winter Vegetable soup, a soup I would be proud to serve. If you want any of these recipes you can go on line in a few days to capture them. I am not sure how long after they appear in the magazine they appear. FYI my Bon newsletter came (comes twice a month) and lots of good stuff there. ??? Maybe an electronic cookbook to all these great websites may make sense. Just wondering what you think!!!???

Comment on New Recipes for Leftovers

2009-12-02T20:04:55Z

Ooops..read in the newspaper today in the Fixit column that left overs should be thrown out after two days. Left overs should not be in a freezer for more that a month. I guess I got my answer on what to do with all my left overs. I now have to schedule some time to clean my freezer too. It will be very empty soon!

Comment on A Stress Free Menu For Thanksgiving

2009-11-24T13:18:48Z

while watching the evening news last night I learned that the Pilgrims were two years late for the first Thanksgiving. The first one was held in Virginia. It has been accepted by the Library of Congress as the first but not our fold lore. So stop stressing...fun fact to discuss this year!

Comment on Loosing Gourmet Makes Me Sad

2009-10-07T03:43:04Z

Hella, you make a very valid point about who actually funds magazines - advertisers, rather that subscribers or purchasers. Maybe this is why blogs such as yours, with a focus on family food and heritage recipes are so popular.
Last month I blogged about making marmalade in my Aunt Ruby Remembers blog and this month I'm focussing both my blogs on the importance of collecting favourite family recipes and the stories associated with each recipe.

Check my website for the blogs at:
http://www.historyfromtheheart.com.au/
Keep up the good work!
Annie

Comment on Ice Cream on a stick or in a bowl

2009-08-24T21:54:03Z

Graeters Ice Cream parlor, located on Hyde Park Square,suburb of Cincinnati is the oldest surviving ice cream manufacturer in America (125 years) and the only one left that still makes ice cream using the French pot method. This is the best ice cream on the planet.

Comment on Ice Cream on a stick or in a bowl

2009-08-22T00:00:11Z

I pined after the popsicle man. We almost never got to buy anything (too darn many of us). And didn't even get to spend our own money but the sound of the ding, ding, ding is the sound of summer.

Comment on Ice Cream on a stick or in a bowl

2009-08-19T16:31:32Z

If we followed the line of thinking of the Mother's in Brooklyn who want to remove the ice cream vendors we would also remove candy bars from the check out lines at grocery stores and pop from grocery shelves.

Would seem easier to me if these Mothers taught their children the meaning of the word no.
Cindy Lou

Comment on Summer in Jar Revisited

2009-08-05T15:03:41Z

While catching up on my food reading I saw an article in the NY Times talking about gardening on your duff that was set up to be a lazy gardener. He has panted raspberries and waits for them to grow and just picks them. I want to up him once and double down..I just go into the woods. It land owned by the County and State and no one plants but nature. The only competition for the fruit are the wild creatures.Yes, I am left to the good nature of the weather but so is the home gardener. Frost can be the enemy and too much rain. This year everything is late to the cooler temps in Northern Wisconsin but the blueberries finally ripened after I bought my organic ones for canning. I spent a hour picking for dessert yesterday. So just call me the truly lazy gardener. But I agree on the asparagus planted as well as the rhubarb that are my first signs that spring has really come.