Recipes
This is an eclectic collection of recipes that doesn’t even pretend to be comprehensive (or healthy, for that matter.) These recipes are here because they give great pleasure. They have special meaning to our family or to me.
Breads
- Cornbread: One Version: Kentucky Black Skillet/Hot Water (not sweet, no flour)
- James Beard’s Cornmeal Spoon Bread
- Maria Polushkin Robbins’s Spoon Bread
- Mother and Dad’s Saturday Night Rolls
- Mrs. Moore’s Incredibly Tender Rolls
- Teff Waffles with Caramelized Bananas (adapted from Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way, by Lorna Sass)
- Tender Buttermilk Biscuits (with grated frozen butter) from Kitchen Savvy
Drinks
- Homemade Hot Chocolate – so much better than you can imagine, and so much easier than you think!
Fruits
- Blackberry Pie, Crisp, Cobbler
- Sour Cherry Soup
- Grilled Peach-Jalapeño Salsa
- Peachberry: Ice cream topping, standalone dessert, or roast/grilled meat side relish
- Chilled Strawberry Wedding Soup
Main Dishes
- Corned Beef
- Fabulous Flounder, a vacation find
- Gramps’s Birthday Roast Duck
- Judy Rosen’s Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
- Mother’s “Basted” (Roast) Chicken
- Paula’s Mexican Cornbread
- Polenta with Garlicky Greens
Our Family Breakfast Favorites
- Tender Buttermilk Blueberry Scones
- Gramps’s Cinnamon Rolls, Apricot Rolls, Lemon-Honey-Pecan Rolls
- Cowgirl Coffee Cake
- Mimi’s Homemade Doughnuts
- Fran’s Big Dutch Babies
- Baked Eggs and Bacon in Muffin Cups
Our Family Holiday Favorites
- Holiday Croquembouche
- Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish
- New Year’s Eve Potstickers
- Steve’s Chicken Liver Paté
Sweets
- Almond Cornmeal Torte, a recipe-in-progress
- Almond Apricot Pound Cake with Amaretto, a cake I have not yet succeeded with, but find fascinating
- Blackberry Pie, Crisp, Cobbler
- Buttermilk Pound Cake(s)
- Blonde Brownies
- Coffee Butter Almond Ice Cream (From Cuisinart’s recipe booklet)
- Homemade Marshmallows
- Molasses Crinkles
- Susan Hill’s Italian Cream Cake
- Western Kentucky Chocolate Sheet Cake
Vegetables
- Aunt Bea’s Immediate Pickly Cucumbers
- Cool English Cucumbers: A theme with some variations
- Fennel
- Homemade Tomato Puree
- Steve’s Brussels Sprouts
- Tomato Feta Salad
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I am updating the website for my product, Nancy’s Fancy Cheddar Snaps and would like to include a link to your site. Many of my customers are curious about Kentucky’s culinary traditions. They will, I feel sure, appreciate the opportunity to learn more from your comprehensive discussions.
Thank you, Linda! Nancy’s Fancy Cheddar Snaps are soooo Kentucky, crunchy and cheesy with that extra little peppery “bite-back” I remember from my own family’s favorite cheese crisp recipes. It would be an honor to have Savoring Kentucky listed on your site.
I love everything about this site, your salute to Kentucky’s agrarian past and all the treasures–farms, growers, chefs, groups like Slow Food, Sierra Club, Community Farm Alliance, Partners for Family Farms, Kentucky Proud, writers–still coming together today to champion the cause. We have much work to do but Savouring Kentucky is a lovely way to help celebrate our local food community.