What We Ate On Easter Sunday

April 1, 2013 by mymateriallife

Clockwise from upper left: Marion Cunningham’s Featherbed Eggs for brunch with chicken apple sausage and strawberries.  This time I made the dish with a heartier country type bread.  I love that you put this together the night before, so in the morning all you have to do is put it in the oven.  Then make yourself a mimosa and relax.  Good the next morning too! Used these eggs to make an after nap (mine) snack of deviled eggs.  Nothing fancy […]

Categories: Celebrations, Easter, Savories • Tags: buttermilk biscuits, dinner, featherbed eggs, food, honey roasted chicken, jean-georges salad, marion cunningham

Easter Favorites 2012

April 10, 2012 by mymateriallife

       In photo order (top to bottom): Large tissue paper flowers (instructions here courtesy of Martha Stewart) with home-glittered letters from a party store “make your own banner” kit. My friend Camille’s Meyer Lemon Pound Cake (recipe here courtesy of Amber Simpkins) – flawless in taste, texture and appearance. Camille’s tip:  skip the boiled lemon slices and their brew called for in the recipe.  She made a test run of the recipe and found that they didn’t work for her. […]

Categories: Beverages, Easter, Paper, Savories, Sweets • Tags: featherbed eggs, jelly bean cocktail, marion cunningham, meyer lemon pound cake, tissue paper flowers

Marion Cunningham’s Buttermilk Pancakes for Friends

January 24, 2011 by mymateriallife

I really admire Marion Cunningham – her writing and thoughts about cooking at home for family and friends, her recipes, the way she reinvented herself in the middle of her life. Throughout the 90′s and into the early 2000′s, I collected her columns from the San Francisco Chronicle food section. Her pancake column is the one I turn to again and again because pancakes are a favorite dinner in our household.  This recipe turned up shortly after Marion Cunningham published […]

Categories: Savories • Tags: buttermilk pancakes, marion cunningham