Latkes Benedict Serves: 4 Prep time: 50 minutes For the latkes, or potato pancakes: For the poached eggs: For the hollandaise: Makes 3 cups To assemble:
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Latkes Benedict
Today is the first day of Hanukah, and it always reminds me of my introduction to the latke. My mother and father-in-law were coming from Florida (where else?) for a visit, and I’d been flying around the house for two days with my infant daughter on my hip, cleaning everything that could possibly be cleaned. My mother-in-law was a neat freak of the highest order and I wanted to impress her with my housekeeping skills, though things had become much […]
Mincemeat Pies
Serves: 2 dozen mincemeat tartlets or one 9-inch pie Prep time: 45 minutes For the filling: For the crust: I like former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier’s pie dough the best. If you don’t want to make the dough from scratch, you can buy premade piecrust dough in your dairy case.
Happy Birthday Jane Austen!
This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se’nnight.” – Janet Austen, Emma Today is Jane Austen’s birthday, and if you’re as big a fan as I am, you’ll be […]
Prayer at Dinner?
Dear Lea, We pray over each meal, as a family. When guests are over, what is the right thing to do? Still pray? Ask guest to lead the prayer? Don’t pray at all? If it’s your tradition to say grace before a meal, then you should absolutely do it when you have guests. I wouldn’t ask them to lead the prayer without a little warning first, so they have a moment to think about what they’d like to say (or […]
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