By Madame Purl, on December 18th, 2008 Potato this time and my favorite. This is one of my mother’s recipes that comes from her multi-heritage background. I’ve heard it could be possibly from Germany or the Ukraine. I’ve seen many variations over the years and I personally think it may be from anywhere it was cold and the possible following [...]
By Madame Purl, on December 16th, 2008 Yum.
This is my first time making this soup. It’s 3 bean and ham. I used black-eyed peas, lima beans, and navy beans. I soaked them first for about 8 hours and then assembled all the ingredients which was the ham bone, beans, an onion, some garlic, a little celery salt, a [...]
By Madame Purl, on November 3rd, 2008 DH decided to try cheesecake.
Turned out gorgeous.
Unfortunately the taste was only so-so. That’s OK because I think we’ll be seeing another version of this shortly.
By Madame Purl, on October 26th, 2008 I’m trying to finish up a few things around here today, so much knitting and not much talking.
We did manage to catch the sun going down and bouncing off the watertower. Against the background of dark, dark clouds, it was a gorgeous site.
Other then that we got our baked apples and [...]
By Madame Purl, on August 18th, 2008 So I know this is a knitting blog, but boy am I finding it hard to chase after a puppy and do the knit thing lately. Plus I’ve been so tired. It didn’t help that Sunday I decided to power wash the parts of the house siding I could reach. Although it was really nice [...]
By Madame Purl, on May 27th, 2008 So when DH has some time off to himself, he sure does love to bake. We got not one, but two treats.
First a summer fruit pie
and next a lemon pound cake.
My contribution was quiche.
I have been having such a hankering for quiche. [...]
By Madame Purl, on May 15th, 2008 I was having a something fierce craving for chicken piccata today. I decided to give it a whirl on my own. Once a again a recipe I found on allrecipes.com. Pretty simple. I added the capers and used the suggestions from the first reviewer. This is definitley a keeper. Very yummy.
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By Madame Purl, on May 14th, 2008 So last night I took the day off to rest and decided to make up a little supper. I found a new fish recipe and decided to pair it with my very favorite potato recipe. Since they turned out well, I thought I would share them with you.
So my tasty super simple potato recipe [...]
By Madame Purl, on November 24th, 2007 First let me say Thank You to everyone for the birthday wishes and nice comments about Butterfly. I haven’t gotten through all my emails yet, but you will all be getting one back from me. I had a really nice birthday. Beautiful books for my collection as someone went a teeny bit crazy on my [...]
By Madame Purl, on October 26th, 2007 My baker was back in business this morning. He used Julie’s recipe and made some delicious Apple Coffee Cake.
Also there was some serious kitty loving on the dog. This one has no shame and can’t seem to resist Poodle top knot.
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