Showing posts with label foodie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foodie. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2025

elbow bread

bakeries, and those of us obsessed with visiting them, have been on my mind lately...

these are photos taken on a sunny day in january, at elbow ludlow on the lower east side.










































this is jezabel, who traveled in from 
philadelphia to visit; she owns her 
own bakery, restaurant, market
for over fifteen years
@jezabels.phl





Wednesday, April 28, 2021

make a wish!

happy birthday, dear bob!

we love you (and mary) so very much,

more than vanilla spritz cookies;

or a chocolate ganache bakery cake;

or even your favorite lemon meringue pie! 











mary and bob


89 expeditions around the sun, so fun!!

make a wish!!
xxx 


Friday, January 29, 2021

restaurant week

around the town, amidst the exceptional circumstances of the new year, $20.21 menus, deliveries and orders to go.... 



meatpacking
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/as-new-york-city-hosts-a-restaurant-week-like-no-other-cuomo-suggests-indoor-dining-could-soon-return/ar-BB1dbzFq


 

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Sunday, October 4, 2020

ginger

thank you, mom, for the ginger cookies! 




at home in new york

 

and, dear readers, here is the recipe! 



from cookies installment, mary cooks.....



Tuesday, April 7, 2020

mary had a little lamb



Easter, Ventosa Drive, from our Mary Cooks family calendar



i promised you the Lamb Cake recipe before Easter!

it is in the final installment of the food memoir created for my mom's 70th birthday.
i called the chapter Next Generation and the focus was on all the fun baking and cooking shared between Mary and her two granddaughters, Abigail and Charlotte, and with and for her Butterworth neighborhood of kids, many of whom adopted my mom as their own, and vice versa....

but, i was never able to finish assembling and publishing all the remaining chapters so here it is piecemeal, along with a story about the recipe and cake mold used to bake it. enjoy!!

the story of the lamb cake


mom, about the darling rabbit and duckling and hen shaped butter cookies on the platter with the lamb cake.  do we have the recipe for those in our Cookies chapter?  i think you gave me the cookie cutters when you moved from Ventosa to Mendham!

cookie cutters ...


the recipe, typed for the cookbook 
and, i see the chocolate and marzipan glazed egg cakes in the photo as well but did not come across the recipe. i think you made it with a Dromedary pound cake mix as well, and with Shirley's Chocolate Glaze but am not sure?  perhaps you can refresh my repertoire with those recipes, along with the pastel marzipan frosting, too?



mom's original notes 


mini egg cake molds 


mom, backyard egg hunt for the neighborhood


Ventosa Drive kids taking swings at the pinata...

happy baking! happy memory making! stay safe! xx