New Year’s Eve in My Sister’s Kitchen

I was just getting ready to write that New Year’s Eve was less traditional at our house, but I realized that our Christmas and even Thanksgiving menus have varied at least to some degree each year (Christmas more than Thanksgiving), but New Year’s Eve has been nearly the same every year since I’ve been married. [...]

Readers, can you help this lady?

Dear MSK Readers,
A couple days ago, Nancy posted this question in the comments on my grandma’s lemon bars. I don’t know the answer to this question, but I thought that perhaps one of you might.

Grilled Bleu Cheese Beef Tenderloin: Unbelievable food AND a history lesson

Words almost fail me….but not quite. Dave grilled a whole beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner and it was simply aMAZing.

Christmas on Purpose

We were doing the Sunday morning “meet and greet” during the first few minutes of the service. Conversation swirled around me; “Good morning! Ready for Christmas?” “Got all your presents wrapped?” “All done with your baking?” I’d half-listen to the answers and then smile and turn to the next person and ask the same questions.
I [...]

Christmas menus from Barb’s Kitchen, 2007

Okay, okay, okay, I’ll indulge Laura’s nosey impulses and share my Christmas menu.

Christmas menus at Laura’s house, 2007

I am incurably nosey about what people are eating, and I assume that many of you who come back to our site repeatedly are also nosey, or you wouldn’t keep coming here. So here’s a peek at what we are eating at our house in the next two days:

Eggs Hussarde

My father-in-law is an excellent cook, and it is something of a family tradition that he gets up early on Christmas morning and makes something wonderful for the family breakfast (which is often a separate affair from Christmas dinner!) My favorite of his Christmas morning offerings has always been Eggs Hussarde. We are [...]

Festive Cheese Ball

This comes from the grandmother of my friend Jeri, and appears in their family cookbook. It’s a basic cheese-ball, good for party hors-d’oevres, football nights, and Christmas brunch:

Swedish Rice Custard (Rice Pudding)

I was at a church potluck last week for the last-meeting-before-Christmas of our women’s Bible study. A sign-up sheet had been passed around in each small group, with opportunities to bring things like “egg dish”, or “some kind of bread”. There was a line for “non-egg hot dish”. I assumed that these [...]

Skorpa (Swedish Toast)

I have got this wonderful scam…er…scheme that I’ve been working. I beg people for their family Christmas recipes, and they show up at my door bearing not only the recipe, but also a plate of samples. (Some of you are making a note now to start a food blog so that you can work [...]