Oooo! The Sunday Gravy and Meatballs.... Yummy!Went out to pick a few things up and it is snowing. I was sliding all over. Will be making meatballs and a pot of gravy. Bought cheese raviolis and cavatelli. Also will be making garlic bread (got the butter softening to make the garlic butter). I picked up some jalapenos and am planning to make jalapeno bagels later or tomorrow.
My aunt makes that but calls it anisette toast. They are twice baked right?
Yeah peeps... twice baked. 20 then cut then 5 one side, and finishing with 3 on the other side.My aunt makes that but calls it anisette toast. They are twice baked right?
Yeah peeps... twice baked. 20 then cut then 5 one side, and finishing with 3 on the other side.
Growing up, we called them coffee biscotti, or Hard Biscotti.... and sometimes just Biscotti.
Now a funny thing. Gram would tell me the story about how the men would go for days in the mountains to gather wood and mushrooms, they would take a goat skin bag filled with the anisette biscotti. The anisette flavor kept the bugs from coming around and they were made dry, to last forever. Gram said they never spoil.
My dad used to say, "Yea Ma, especially yours, because are like eating petrified wood!"
As kids....we thought that was a sin to answer your mother like that. Then, on the other hand...it was normal, for Dads Mom to hit him! haahahaha....even when dad was 55.
We used to say,"Dad, How come you let Grandma Hit You?".....he said, "She's My Mother!"....LOL we understood then!
The treats were always in the house, and Gram made them every week.
I like them with the star annise seeds. A lot of people don't.
DD makes them with black pepper course ground sometimes.
No peep.I used to love the Hard Black Pepper Biscotti. But those were made with twice baked Italian bread made with lots of black pepper and weren't sweet. We would break them and put butter on them. I can't find them anywhere any more. The good old fashioned Italian bakeries are all gone around here
Does your DD make black pepper Italian bread Biscotti? If so would love recipe.
I had mustard greens, purple hull peas, and cornbread last night. More of the same tonight.
Shermie....I'll bet you probably had these, but if not, did you ever have Dandelions? ( The leaves )I truly LOVE mustard greens!!!
Shermie....I'll bet you probably had these, but if not, did you ever have Dandelions? ( The leaves )
I love them, but it takes a whole grocery bag full to just make enough for me.
My mother in law used to pick the flowers, and make wine.
Shermie....I'll bet you probably had these, but if not, did you ever have Dandelions? ( The leaves )
I love them, but it takes a whole grocery bag full to just make enough for me.
My mother in law used to pick the flowers, and make wine.
Pasta Cake
(Old pic)
may be a Pittsburgh woman, except, man, we love greens. my Dad cooks them so often. vinegar, black pepper, 1 kind of fresh greens, or another, & ham base- nom. usually w/ a ham steak.
I truly LOVE mustard greens!!!