American country cooking is a story of cows and chickens, grains and fresh vegetables and wild berries. It is simple and honest and touched with nostalgia, a bit of ethnicity, regionality, and history. This excellent selection of delicious home-style recipes by veteran food writer Beatrice Ojakangas highlights dishes that reflect many parts of the country and many different cuisines. Her recipe for Swedish Meatballs includes sauces adaptable for Asian-, Indian-, Italian-, and Russian-style meals, while her moist and sumptuous Chocolate-Applesauce Cake is a distinctive Dutch favorite, and her...
American country cooking is a story of cows and chickens, grains and fresh vegetables and wild berries. It is simple and honest and touched with nosta...
Beatrice Ojakangas, the oldest of ten children, came by it naturally the cooking but also the pluck and perseverance that she's served up with her renowned Scandinavian dishes over the years. In the wake of the Moose Lake fires and famine of 1918, Ojakangas tells us in this delightful memoir-cum-cookbook, her grandfather sent for a Finnish mail-order bride and got one who d trained as a chef.
Ojakangas s stories, are, unsurprisingly, steeped in food lore: tales of cardamom and rye, baking salt cake at the age of five on a wood-burning stove, growing up on venison, making egg rolls...
Beatrice Ojakangas, the oldest of ten children, came by it naturally the cooking but also the pluck and perseverance that she's served up with her ...
This memoir-cum-cookbook from celebrated cook Beatrice Ojakangas is chock-full of recipes, anecdotes, and a kind humor that bring to vivid life the Finnish culture of northern Minnesota as well as the wider culinary world. Homemade delivers the savory and the sweet in equal measures and casts a warm light on a rich slice of the country's cooking heritage.
This memoir-cum-cookbook from celebrated cook Beatrice Ojakangas is chock-full of recipes, anecdotes, and a kind humor that bring to vivid life the Fi...
"With recipes drawn from her ... career and honed in her home kitchen, Breakfast with Beatrice [Ojakangas] prepares the cook--seasoned veteran or novice--to make breakfast the perfect start to every day"--
"With recipes drawn from her ... career and honed in her home kitchen, Breakfast with Beatrice [Ojakangas] prepares the cook--seasoned veteran or novi...