Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert
Chinese BBQ Pork: Char Siu
Y’all! I can not even describe how much I enjoyed the Char Siu pork that I made the other day. The mixture of sweet and savory hit just the right note for this perfectly cooked pork. Seriously, eating it was euphoric! Unfortunately, my sad picture does not come remotely close to doing the dish justice. […]
Pork Potstickers
My sister sent my daughter links to people making awesome and creative looking filled dumplings. Then, she sent me a link and frequently questioned whether we had made them yet. She knew my daughter loves Asian dumplings, so she decided to have fun by pairing up with her niece to bug me. What she did […]
Seven 1970′s Recipes, Recipe 5: City Chicken
No, city chicken did not originate in the 1970’s. As I mentioned in an earlier post, these are recipes that were introduced and made in my house growing up in the 1970’s. If you are not familiar, city chicken is not chicken at all. It is actually pork and veal or just pork cubes on […]
