Category: Variations on a theme

To Tinker or Not to Tinker – that is the question

When I started this blog, I had an idea of doing a weekly post titled “Varations on a theme”. This was because I would find recipes that I liked that I knew I could tinker with to change the flavor profile while keeping the basic components fairly similar. Certain...

Black Magic Cake #Variations on a theme

This is, without exception, my favorite chocolate cake. I was first introduced to this luscious, intensely chocolate bundt-type cake in 1995 when I picked up a copy of New Kosher Cuisine for All Seasons by Feuerstadt and Strauss.  It was a non-dairy version titled Shabbat Chocolate Cake, and it...

Clementine Cake – Variations on a theme

Sometimes I obsess about foods that I have never had before. It started when I was small, reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.” I desperately wanted to try Turkish Delight. If it was something that one ate while drinking hot cocoa, it had to be...

Variations on a Theme – Slutty Brownies/Dirty Boys

Some years ago a recipe ran across my radar, not just because of the name, but also because it combined three things I love – Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oreo Cookies, and Brownies. Yes, the triple-threat, the Slutty Brownie, or as some of my friends call them, Dirty Boy Brownies....

#TBT Pay Attention! Or why Vicky had no eyebrows for a while…

So, I am going to share another cooking fail. When I was in 7th grade, and my sister, Mindy, was in 6th grade, our parents were both working. Mom worked first shift, Dad worked second shift. Sometimes Dad would be home just as we got home, and he’d leave...

Variations on a Theme – Keto Coffee Drops

Yes, yes, I know – Keto is the biggest, latest fad food thing. Here’s the thing. Not every change of eating habits will work for every body. Yes, I split that word deliberately. I’m not a nutritionist. I’m not a doctor. I’m not even a scientist. I am just...

Variations on a Theme – Corned Beef Hash

Corned Beef Hash is one of my guilty pleasures, one of the things I love to order when we go out for breakfast at a new diner. Home Fries, Coffee, and Corned Beef Hash are the things I rate a diner on – If the home fries are creamy...

Scrambled Eggs – Variations on a theme

One of the things I hated about going Keto the first time was just how little variation my breakfasts became. Eggs and bacon, eggs and sausage, eggs and eggs and eggs… you can see where I’m going with this, right? I don’t like to think of myself as a...