“It’s Aunt Bessie’s recipe, and it’s a yum yum!” Well, what more is there to say? It’s clearly a good recipe based on this recommendation – and with the amounts of cheese, oleo, and nuts in the recipe, it’s easy to understand why. I imagine these being similar to a savory shortbread, equal parts fat [...]

Hush puppies are a classic southern food here in the United States.  Small balls of cornmeal dough fried until golden and crisp, while tender on the inside.  My favorite hush puppy recipes use a bit of grated onion in them to make them deliciously savory.

I’ve heard of smearcase before but I cannot remember where or in what circumstance. Likely, my mother reminisced about it at some point. Smearcase is a soft cheese usually eaten with a spoon or on crackers and is sometimes used to refer to cottage cheese. The term smearcase is based on the German word schmierkase [...]

Imagine my surprise when I found a recipe with ‘monkey’ in the title.  Sure, I’ve heard of monkey bread but never English Monkey.  To my relief, I discovered the recipe did not contain any actual monkeys or other primates. Like many old recipes, it just lists the ingredients and not much else.  I decided to [...]