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Add the Fresh Cranberry Relish to your cart and you'll get and email containing the printable recipe! 

These Downloadable Recipes are part of an ongoing effort to record my family's dishes and share them with others. These are reliable, delicious dishes that I grew up with, and are foods that that I love. I hope you enjoy them! 

On Cranberry Relish: 

Are you tired of the usual canned or cooked cranberry sauce? My family started adding this Fresh Cranberry Relish to our Thanksgiving dinner as it adds a welcome brightness to the whole meal and is ridiculously easy.  It’s best to make it the day before so the flavors can blend. It’s also great on a sandwich with leftover turkey!

Add the Panzanella Recipe to your cart and you'll get and email containing the printable recipe.

These Downloadable Recipes are part of an ongoing effort to record my family's dishes and share them with others. These are reliable, delicious dishes that I grew up with, and are foods that I love. I hope you enjoy them! 

About Panzanella: 

This is a recipe I make in late summer, when real vine-ripened tomatoes are available. Besides ripe tomatoes, it is important to use a sturdy, dense bread, such as a rustic Artisan or sourdough (white or wheat), ideally from your local bakery. Day-old dense bread is fine for this. Be generous with the basil.  

What to do with the leftovers? Combine a cup or two of the bread salad with a couple of beaten eggs for a delicious breakfast omelet the next morning. 

Add the Tabbouleh Recipe to your cart and you'll get and email containing the printable recipe! 

These Downloadable Recipes are part of an ongoing effort to record my family's dishes and share them with others. These are reliable, delicious dishes that I grew up with, and are foods that I love. I hope you enjoy them! 

About Tabbouleh: 

We always make tabbouleh when real vine-ripened tomatoes and fresh garden cucumbers are in season, so late summer is the perfect time to enjoy this refreshing salad. Traditional Middle Eastern tabbouleh is made with a huge amount of parsley, and very little grain, but I prefer a lot more grain (bulgur wheat or quinoa) and a good amount, but not overwhelming parsley.

   -Marcella Kriebel, August 2023

Add the Wacky Cake Recipe to your cart and you'll get and email containing the printable recipe! 

These Downloadable Recipes are part of an ongoing effort to record my family's dishes and share them with others. These are reliable, delicious dishes that I grew up with, and are foods that that I love. I hope you enjoy them! 

About Wacky Cake: 

Wacky cake is something that is quick and can be made with most common of ingredients in the pantry. This recipe comes out of the Great Depression, in the mid-1930’s when butter, eggs and milk were out of reach of most people’s budgets.  It is very reminiscent of recipes I discovered while researching my cookbook, Comida Cubana and reminds me of the recipes of TV cooking show personality, Nitza Villapol. She is in many ways, the Cuban Julia Child, who taught a nation to cook at home. In Cuba, after the revolution of 1959, Villapol became famous for creatively doing more with less. Virtually every Cuban home I visited had a cherished copy of her cookbook, Cocina al Minuto. Read more about Nitza in this excerpt from Comida Cubana.  

Download Paulina's Challah Bread Recipe and read more about the origins of this braided bread on the blog.