I loved this post when it first came out and didn’t comment, but now that it’s getting cycled to the front again – absolutely. I really do relish my amateur status and the indulgences it allows. My knife skills just have to not cut me, but they don’t have to be the most efficient ever. If I make 1 muffin fewer just because I think batter tastes better than the actual muffins, that’s all me. I don’t have to watch my profit margins or my consistency. I can make the same dish 20 times and deliberately make it differently every single time.

I am glad that television shows and books and blogs have given me more of a view to what being a professional chef entails, not least because it means I can be grateful for the joys of sticking my finger in the batter bowl.

Thanks.

I love peach. I love ginger. What not to like them together? Wish I was there when you take the pie out of the oven!

So, when’s the book coming out?

Completely darling, as always. Culinerapy II coming soon?

dahlila

H has always been, and always will be the better for being in hamantaschen. Yum.

What a wonderful story about the “author” of the kugel. And the photo of the typed recipe is precious. Thank you for sharing the story, recipe and lovely photos. Since Hanukkah is around the corner, I’m adding your Aunt’s kugel to our menu.

That recipe card is just priceless!!! And the kugel sounds very similar to what my grandmother used to make, and she never shared the recipe. Not because she didn’t want to. But because I didn’t have enough time to ask. Once I started cooking in my own kitchen, she was long gone. It is so magical how recipes and recipes cards go down through generations. Now you have just given me inspiration to try this recipe, which I am sure will taste just like hers. Thank you M!

That is a fine, fine kugel. My boys now know what a kugel is and what it should taste like, thanks to Aunt Rose. Ruth. Heck, thanks to you.

Let that be a lesson, Ms. Marilyn… no more gingerbread, pie-in-the-sky ideas. Although, I have to say that particular work of art, is beautiful, and it would be a shame if you didn’t construct another work. You are so talented, both with dough and the pen.