A Place Like This

Category: Cooking

  • A Gnome’s Holiday Table

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    Valarie Budayr
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      Being nocturnal, gnome’s always come at night leaving for us beautiful round tins filled with one-ders, wishing cookies, and lokum. As we meet nightly for stories, games, and playing music, we most definitely work up an appetite and these little goodies relieve us of that problem.          One-ders, and not wonders,…

  • Mormor’s Chocolate Cake Cookies

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Every year a well stuffed box, wrapped in brown paper, would arrive at our home from Gotland Sweden,just days before Christmas. In it were lovely knitted items and my grandmother's (mormor) famous chocolate cake cookies. Mom would immediately grab the wodded up newspaper pieces which had been used as packing material. Diligently ,she would start pressing…

  • Merry Making Business

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    Valarie Budayr
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    When all is dark it's time to make some magic. May you have a weekend of togetherness and creativity. See you Monday.

  • Feast from the Middle Sea

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Before we were even married my sweet man from Lebanon had to endure the traditional meal of Thanksgiving. I say endure because I had never cooked a Thanksgiving meal in my life. We were living in Switzerland and I had become quite close to the little village I was living in and decided to cook…

  • How to Lasso a pumpkin

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    Valarie Budayr
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    The lead story on the evening news was" No canned pumpkin on store shelves in Knoxville". So this is where I left you yesterday ……..Looking For Pumpkins,real ones. We conquered and divided, that girlfriend Ruth and I. She was going out to the green grocers and pumpkin farms to see what she could find. While…

  • An Apple and a Strudel and Away we go

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    Valarie Budayr
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    It is so much cooler today. It's raining and as I was walking this morning I noticed that there are many apples on the trees. This reflection gave rise to a "flashback" moment, not unlike "grasshopper" in the TV series Kung Fu. (Flashback) Once there was a girl who loved music and played her piano…

  • Project Spectrum Skorpa

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    Valarie Budayr
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    The color of the season is yellow. I love yellow. For starters I needed to stay with tradition and make saffrans skorpa. What is this you ask ? From the lovely island of Gotland, in Sweden, there is someone making this lovely biscotti to have with their coffee. Kids and cats alike, as well as, the…