Gran's Best

Heirlooms & Discoveries

Baked Ziti with Spinach & Eggplant

October 28, 2016 Gran

Adapted from a 2010 Williams-Sonoma catalog. Recipe makes enough  for a large 10 x 16” casserole containing sausage (serves 12) and a 9 x 13” casserole for the vegetarian version (serves 6).  If your ratio of meat-eaters to vegetarians is different, modify the … [Read more...]

Mains, Meat Main Dishes, Recipes, Veggie Main Dishes pasta, vegetarian, Williams-Sonoma

Chili

October 28, 2016 Gran

Downsized and adapted from Chili for a Crowd in Recipes from Pennies by Penny Greenwood (1985). To serve our family of many tastes, I make vegetarian chili and offer a Chili Bar with bowls of ground beef, grated Cheddar, diced onions, sliced jalapeños, and cooked rice or … [Read more...]

Mains, Meat Main Dishes, Recipes, Tex-Mex, Vegetables, Veggie Main Dishes Hot Sauce Fever, Penny Greenwood, Penzeys, Tex-Mex, vegetarian

Barbecued Shrimp New Orleans Style

October 27, 2016 Gran

We first found this great recipe in The New Orleans Cookbook by Rima Collins and Richard Collins (1975). We lost the recipe for a couple of decades until another New Orleans barbecued shrimp recipe appeared in Saveur magazine. A version at the Nola Cuisine website is even better, … [Read more...]

Mains, Recipes, Seafood, Seafood Main Dishes New Orleans, Nola Cuisine, Saveur

Amaretti Cookies

October 25, 2016 Gran

These cookies are Mary's favorite. The recipe comes from The Smitten Kitchen blog, adapted from Gourmet, January 2009. Like Mary, these cookies are very sweet. Yield: About four dozen cookies 1 (7-ounce) box or can or tube pure almond paste 1 cup sugar Pinch of kosher … [Read more...]

Cookies, Desserts, Recipes almonds, Mary

Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Frosting

October 21, 2016 Gran

After a lifetime of trying countless recipes for chocolate cake and chocolate icing, I've settled on the two recipes below. This makes the quintessential birthday cake, often requested. The cake recipe is adapted from Dr. Peggy Polaneczky's The Blog That Ate Manhattan, and came … [Read more...]

Cakes, Desserts, Recipes birthday, Margaret Polaneczky, Thanksgiving

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 Gran likes to watch things grow. Grandbabies, bread dough, pepper plants, and stacks of books are a few of the things growing around here.

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