I have an orange tree, totally full of delicious oranges right now, so we eat them several times a day. We juice them. We cut them in half and freeze for a treat later (eat them still frozen with a spoon). We make candied orange peels. We add them to fruit smoothies. We eat them…
Desserts
Fried Dough / Sfingi
Also from an old Italian cookbook… Pizza Fritta says the cookbook but I think my ex MIL called it Sfingi. To me, they are like a raised doughnut without the hole. You can use any basic white bread dough. If you don’t have a favorite recipe, try the one below.
Applesauce 7-up Jello
When I was at the library book sale the other weekend, I picked up a handful of “community cookbooks,” those that are put together as a fundraiser typically for some organization and various members contribute their favorite recipes. Some of them were old and they’re fun to read through for forgotten ideas. One of them…
Chocolate Chip Squares
Here’s a treat from Lost Recipes that’s great for the lunchbox and easy enough to put the kids in charge of making them! The original recipe called for TWO CUPS of chocolate chips. I made them last night with 1.5 cups but think next time I’ll go down to 1 cup.
Chocolate Pudding Cake
I was going to enter this for the Is My Blog Burning entry, but the brandy is such a small part of it, it hardly seemed right. However, I did make this last night and I thought I should share.