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Sweet Violet Cooks!
http://svcooks.blogspot.com/
Hark back to the days of yesteryear when food was tasty and substantial and nobody had ever heard of cholesterol! Sweet Violet's personal cookbook has something for everyone who has a hankering after real food prepared at home by human hands. Find your favourites!
- Added on: May 21st, 2009
- Country: South Africa
- Language: English
- Author: Sweet Violet
- Listed in: Food & Drink Recipes
- Tags: recipes food cooking home cooking comfort food family recipes
Recent Posts
Easy, fresh, spreadable, homemade cheese!
Cheese…easy, delicious, spreadable, flavour-it-yourself soft cheeseI was at a farmer’s market some weeks back and came across a couple of girls selling little balls of white cheese. I thought at first that they were baby mozzarella, but upon clos...
Eggs are not supposed to be crunchy!
We had breakfast out yesterday and the eggs they delivered put me instantly in mind of my childhood. I have long since developed the habit of ordering eggs scrambled because scrambled are more difficult to screw up than fried eggs, but the dry, crumb...
Colcannon: vegetarian, gluten-free, and utterly divine!
This is, I believe, a primarily Irish dish, traditionally made with leftover potatoes and cabbage. Since my husband detests cabbage, we seldom have any left over (as I seldom cook it), but I have come up with some variation on the original which, ama...
Marvelous Mushrooms!
I just love mushrooms! And while I love the exotics and the wild ones, give me a succulent, meaty Portobello or a chubby little button mushroom for my skillet and I’m a happy camper!There are many ways to use mushrooms, but I am going to address th...
Washday Supper (New England Boiled Dinner)
I grew up on the West Coast and moved to the Boston area when I was 19. I was adding to my cooking repertoire even then, as my personal cookbook was pretty lean and primarily based on the bland farm cooking of my grandmothers (trust me…you would no...
Trout Amandine
Summertime is fishing trip time. When I was growing up, the men in my family were avid fishermen and so, despite my personal dislike of finny fish (love most shellfish), I ate a lot of it as a child. But plain old fried fish gets tiring after a while...
Sweet Violet Cooks! is a great place to pick up a new idea for a recipe. All the recipes are tested in Sweet Violet's personal kitchen. Her blog is easy to read and she presents her recipes in a way that will not scare off those of us who aren't master chefs. From drinks to dogbiscuits, she has something for everyone, and she keeps it healthy and simple. I'm done Googling for new rrecipes. I'll look here first!
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