Projects, Recipes and Recipe Recovery

Projects, Recipes and Recipe Recovery

I plan on keeping this page as an springboard, and possibly an Index   This may very well also be the "Project Page" where suggestions and variations may be gathered and discussed.  I keep considering the idea of making my project pages wiki-like so that others may also share in the projects.

My old cooking blog shut down, and I hadn't printed out all of the recipes I routinely used, as I knew I could get to them, update them, and use them from the web whenever I wanted. And then boom... gone.  I was able to recover some using the Wayback Machine's archive, but there was no predicting which recipes made it and which failed to be archived.  I've started the slow process of grabbing recipes from the archive, and many of them ended up as postings in my main blog here (Dancing Tomatoes). For those, I will put an entry on this site and point to the recovered <and perhaps updated:> post).

Current projects:

Recovery and replacement of recipes I'd been keeping on mycookingblog.com -- see second paragraph, above.  

Spice cake & penuche frosting
I'm still looking for recipes for spice cake (without raisins or other fruit in the batter) that can be made as a single layer and frosted with a penuche or caramel icing.  I discovered the combination of spice cake with penuche frosting when PCP made it for her own birthday cake sometime in the 80s in Pasadena.

Brown Beauty Cake with Fudge Frosting
a lovely single layer 8 x 8" chocolate cake with  rich fudge frosting.  Recipe is among the hand-written recipes in my binder, so this one will require typing in.

Crepes:
 for Palascintas (savory Hungarian stuffed crepes)
 for Ham and Brie crepes, similar to those at Art Cliff Diner in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard
-for buckwheat galettes (similar to those at the garmer's market - with crab and a lemon sauce!)
for simple fruit or -

Recipe PDFs from friends, family, memories of excellent dishes and meals

New recipes, i.e., recipes "To-Try" - ones I've bookmarked and am interested in trying - or I've read online and am anxious to have a go with.
Indexing of recipes and project notes.

Indexing

Black-Eyed Peas Caper
Chile Verde - Green Chili Stew with Pork posted in Dancing Tomatoes
Eggplant - Kahrmus - Moroccan Eggplant and Garlic
Green Chili Stew  (same as Chile Verde post)
Plum and Pluot Cobbler posted in Dancing Tomatoes