tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46642267861630966712024-03-18T18:59:57.838-05:00I'm Turning 60...I'm Turning 60... plus 10!
<br>I’ve been a senior for a few years.
<br>I’ve had a few good times, and a few bad times. We all have.
<br>But I’m sure we’ll all have more new adventures!Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-87364025399581246382024-02-25T15:10:00.001-06:002024-02-25T15:10:28.609-06:00Anna Sultana’s Fougasse Bread, Onion Focaccia and Fast Focaccia / Use It NowFougasse BreadThe major news story, on both sides of the border, is the rising food prices. I can remember buying a loaf of Italian bread for a dollar. Now, it costs over two dollars. Now, I’m not buying it. Nope… now it’s time to make some Italian bread of my own. Ma used to make focaccia with herbs and onions. Focaccia is an Italian flat bread that’s easy to make. It’s perfect right out of Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-46042461454947578952023-12-27T09:58:00.000-06:002023-12-27T09:58:39.378-06:00Anna Sultana’s Apple Cider Doughnut Loaf Cake, French Toast Casserole, Crescent Cheese Danishes, Mini Cherry Cheese Danishes and Puff Pastry Palmiers / A Big Kid’s Christmas by Margaret UllrichWishing you all the blessings of the season and a New Year filled with all the best! A huge thank you for visiting, I hope to see you again in the new year! ~ MargaretPuff Pastry Palmiers We’re done with 2023!!!That alone gives us a reason to celebrate.Before we get too excited, let’s realize that 2024 might have a few surprises.We’re not totally done with Covid-19, so please stay safe and Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-91591174441257044042023-12-22T09:54:00.001-06:002023-12-22T09:54:45.819-06:00Anna Sultana’s Raisin-Filled Cookies, Honey Bun Cake and Sugarplums / Would Santa Ever Find Me? by Margaret UllrichHappy Holidays, everyone. Wishing you and yours a Christmas filled with all you hold dear! Thank you for visiting ~ Margaret Well, good for us, we’ve made it!Here we are, at the start of the Christmas weekend!It's time to relax, set aside the plans we didn’t achieve - there’s always Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-48215756356805558472023-12-10T18:50:00.002-06:002023-12-10T19:06:00.203-06:00Jam Recipes: Anna Sultana’s Little Twists, Hand Pies, Raspberry Honey Cake with Raspberry Sauce and Raspberry Shortbread / Muriel’s Family Christmas by Margaret UllrichWe’re two weeks away from Christmas Eve.Thanks to the sugar strike the sugar shelves bare.But that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate Christmas with a few sweet notes. The last two posts had a few honey and molasses recipes, as well as links for more recipes.Some items, such as the gingerbread, Pfeffernüsse and Gingersnaps, are actually traditional for Christmas.And on this post, below the Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-7181201171836458862023-12-06T10:06:00.000-06:002023-12-06T10:06:33.585-06:00Anna Sultana’s Soft Molasses Cookies, Iced Soft Molasses Cookies and Newfoundland Molasses Raisin Bread / Tossing Christmas Cookies by Margaret UllrichWent grocery shopping yesterday.They don’t have any sugar, neither white nor brown.I saw another shopper crying.Honey and molasses are sweet, traditional and still on the shelves.A cook’s gotta do what a cook’s gotta do, especially during the holidays.Okay… a few days ago I posted honey recipes. Today we’ll take a look at molasses recipes.Here are a few molasses recipes I’ve posted over the Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-17298118571297787912023-12-01T18:35:00.001-06:002023-12-01T18:53:12.316-06:00Anna Sultana’s Orange Honey Cookies, Honey Cookies and Honey Cake / A Christmas Bargain by Margaret UllrichHoney CakeThis has been quite year for cooking in Canada.Starting in
February 2023, the Windsor Salt workers in the salt mines in Pugwash,
Nova Scotia and Windsor, Ontario went on a 192 day long strike.Since
Windsor is the salt supplier in Canada that meant that the there was a
gaping hole on the shelves where we normally could pick up some salt.Yes, just like toilet paper at the start of Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-38845795161610037012023-10-28T16:14:00.000-05:002023-10-28T16:14:59.950-05:00Anna Sultana’s Fruitcake Baking Hints / 1930s Dollar Fruitcake & Other Fruitcake Recipe Links We got our first snow of the season last Wednesday and the recipe for the Winnipeg Free Press’s Dollar Fruitcake in my Winnipeg is Better Than Chocolate blog was a top hit last week.The stores have already started stocking their shelves with Christmas decorations.I can remember a time when they at least waited until after Halloween.Oh, well, that was then, this is now, and now is the time Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-72938132219963028702023-10-20T08:00:00.210-05:002023-10-20T09:21:10.384-05:00Happy Fourteenth Birthday to I’m Turning 60…!! by Margaret Ullrich Happy Fourteenth Birthday to I’m Turning 60… !!I want to thank each of you for visiting, whether it's been on a daily, weekly or occasional basis!Also, a big Thank you! to those who've told their friends to visit!I especially want to thank everyone who has been kind enough to comment over the years. I really appreciate it when you tell me that your family enjoyed a recipe, or that it Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-13695818332869494622023-08-31T15:26:00.002-05:002023-09-05T08:57:00.307-05:00Folklorama & Anna Sultana's Chicken Shawarma, Easy Chicken Gyros, Pita Bread and FlatbreadHope you enjoyed seeing the super moon / blue moon last night.The last time we had two super full moons in one month was in 2018, and the next time it will happen will be in 2037.Mark your calendars!Other than the super moons life has been getting back to normal here in Winnipeg.Folklorama had its usual 40 pavilions divided evenly between two weeks in August.Back in the 70s all 40 pavilions put Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-36244045534573529252023-06-14T08:00:00.007-05:002023-06-14T08:00:00.134-05:00Anna Sultana’s German-Style Apple Pancakes, Potato Pancakes, Cucumber Salad, Potato Salad, Pork Schnitzel with Red Cabbage and Rhubarb Platz It looks like we're having another hot weekend.Some Dads love playing cook for the day in the great outdoors. Other Dads prefer staying indoors and sitting down to a complete meal - especially if the weather is begging for the air conditioner to be cranked up to top speed.No judgement. It’s Dad’s day and these recipes are good and easy.Why not start with a brunch of German-Style Apple Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-15323972821430977592023-06-11T17:04:00.005-05:002023-06-11T17:05:26.067-05:00Anna Sultana’s German-Style Chocolate Cake, Kuchen and Gingerbread for Father's DayGoodness! Next Sunday is Father's Day! I hope that the weather will be great and that everyone will enjoy the day.My Pop loved chocolate cake.Every Sunday after Mass he would pick up one, along with a half dozen loaves of bread, from the Italian bakery.Because Pop loved chocolate cake I always think of making one for Father’s Day.Over the years I’ve posted a few chocolate cake recipes.If you’re Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-79681265606942211012023-04-30T20:50:00.001-05:002023-04-30T20:50:11.928-05:00Cheap Eating: Mashed Potato Pancakes, Banana Bread, 1-2-3-4 Cake, Poor Man's Cake, Poor Man's PuddingBanana BreadJust got a letter from Statistics Canada asking how we were doing.Well, wasn’t that sweet of them?Statistics Canada, formed in 1971, is the Government of Canada agency which produces statistics to help understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Basically they’d like to know how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected our financial well-being, and they wantMargaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-47672491858240806892023-02-08T19:19:00.001-06:002023-02-09T09:52:22.594-06:00Anna Sultana’s Lobster Quiche / Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits, Cheese Biscuits in a loaf, Shrimp Scampi, Crab-Stuffed Mushrooms / Chocolate Truffles / Valentine's Day Crab-Stuffed MushroomsGoodness! Valentine’s Day is next week!I mean, wasn’t Christmas last week?It sure feels like it was.Oh, well… those planning to go to a favourite restaurant have, hopefully, made reservations.But not everyone wants to go that route.Celebrate, sure, but for many - especially after following restrictions during the past few Covid-19 years - restaurants have lost their Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-27160816826123809102023-01-28T17:12:00.018-06:002023-01-29T12:50:28.143-06:00Pound Cake / Homemade Self-Rising Flour / Truvy’s Cuppa Cuppa Cuppa Cake, Regular and Reduced Sugar / Anna Sultana’s Peach Cake with Coconut Frosting / Dump Cake / Orange Marmalade Cake Last Christmas I posted the recipe for Ma’s Pound Cake, and got a request for a pound cake recipe that uses self-rising flour. Many moons ago I found such a recipe, along with the recipe for self-rising flour, and just like Ma, I made my own tweaks to the recipe. Self-rising flour is not hard to make, and, if you don’t use it regularly, it’s much cheaper to make your own.In the movie Steel Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-78571733373432697342023-01-18T09:45:00.001-06:002023-01-18T09:45:56.372-06:00Anna Sultana’s Bread Pudding with Thick Sauce, and with Vanilla Sauce / Easy Vanilla Sauce / Walnut Bread Pudding / Custard Bread Pudding, with and without Vanilla SauceBread prices, just like most food prices, keep rising.Loaves of plain, basic white and whole wheat bread at our local grocery store went up ten cents a loaf last week.Sometimes there are deals: if you buy more than one loaf the price per loaf is reduced.Wrapped in plastic, a loaf of bread can be stored in the freezer.If there’s room.If the freezer is full the second loaf could go stale and dry.AtMargaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-84741727119574036982023-01-08T16:07:00.005-06:002023-01-10T18:20:08.735-06:00Anna Sultana’s Herbed Focaccia and Focaccia with Tomatoes & Onions / One-Hour Skillet Focaccia, Fast No-Knead Focaccia, No-Knead Skillet Focaccia / Use It Now! by Margaret Ullrich Well, here we are, one week into 2023.The older I get, the faster a week - and a year - goes. The major news story, on both sides of the border, is about the rising food prices.Not naming any stores in particular, but a year ago I could buy a loaf of Italian bread for a dollar.Now, it costs two.Now, I’m not buying it.Nope… now it’s time to make some Italian bread of my own.Ma used to make Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-63837955042274731402022-12-30T07:48:00.263-06:002023-01-03T12:34:56.642-06:00Happy New Year! Anna Sultana's Cotechino with Lentils, Lentil Soup, Baked Frittata / Cornbread with Sausage, Hoppin' John / Christmases Past by Margaret UllrichWishing you all the blessings of the seasonand a New Year filled with all the best!Thank you for visiting hope to see you again in the new year!~ MargaretWe’ve made it through 2022!!!That alone gives us a reason to celebrate.We’re not totally done with Covid-19, so please stay safe and take precautions.Maybe a bit of menu planning will give us some more luck as we enter 2023.Southerners haveMargaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-89196889221341487302022-12-25T07:49:00.056-06:002022-12-25T07:49:00.206-06:00Merry Christmas! Christmas Cookie Cake & Cannoli Cake (Cake Mix) / Anna Sultana's Pound Cake & Cannoli Pound Cake / A Big Kid’s Christmas by Margaret Ullrich Happy Holidays, everyone. Wishing you and yours &Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-25854123053687672352022-12-20T08:11:00.221-06:002022-12-20T08:11:00.205-06:00Anna Sultana's Zuppa Inglese and Zabaione with Berries / Would Santa Ever Find Me? by Margaret Ullrich Five days until Christmas!We’ve had over a month of baking - and eating - platters of traditional breads, cakes, cookies and pies.Time to enjoy something a little less starchy.A bit of alcohol would be a good idea, too.The name of the Neopolitan Trifle, Zuppa Inglese, translates into 'English Soup'.The original recipe called for Alchermes, an Italian liqueur. It was prepared by infusing Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-25967370609699959012022-12-15T09:21:00.000-06:002022-12-15T09:21:00.708-06:00Anna Sultana's Ricotta Cheesecake and Cannoli Cheesecake (Baked and No-Bake) / Muriel’s Family Christmas by Margaret UllrichThanks to a huge Colorado Low we folks in Winnipeg have been having our first major snow storm of the season.And we’re not finished shovelling. We’re supposed to get more snow during the next two days.When it comes to Winnipeggers getting exercise in winter, who needs to join a gym?It’s been a while since I posted a recipe for the no-fail edible tranquilizer, a cheesecake.In honour of the holidayMargaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-46925501342363626682022-12-10T07:57:00.003-06:002022-12-11T13:53:00.369-06:00Anna Sultana’s Anise "S" and Mounds, Biscotti Regina, and Rainbow Cookies / Homemade Almond Paste / Frosting Recipe / The First Maltese Lucia Queen by Margaret Ullrich Two weeks till Christmas!I don’t know about you, but, after not having real Christmases for a few years, thanks to Covid-19, I’m a little rusty.The rustiness, combined with me in general slowing down, is making this Christmas a challenge.Ah, well, the chance to get together is worth a bit of work.And a bit of food.Cookies are always handy to have on hand for unexpected guests.A slice of Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-34603413212360228102022-12-07T15:33:00.001-06:002022-12-07T20:14:38.681-06:00Anna Sultana’s Ricotta Cookies and Christmas Cake / 1930s Dollar Fruitcake (Winnipeg Free Press) / Tossing Christmas Cookies by Margaret Ullrich It's that time of year.All together now: Tradition... Tradition...I know that most of the time everyone just does what they have - or want - to do.But now it’s the holiday season, and there are rules - I mean, traditions - that must be followed.Yippee kay yoh kay yay!Back in December, 2009 I posted the recipe for the Winnipeg Free Press’s 1930s Dollar Fruitcake in my blog Winnipeg is BetterMargaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-80610927873876827212022-12-01T09:30:00.008-06:002022-12-01T20:04:10.581-06:00Anna Sultana's Pasta e Piselli, Shrimp Carbonara, Tomato Bruschetta, and Bagna Cauda / Oh, Christmas Tree! by Margaret Ullrich Happy December!Somebody once saidLife is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I’m wishing you a few breath taking moments this holiday season! Stay safe and well!It looks like the holiday season this year is going to be a return to December as it should be.Gatherings, customs and food. Yes, lots of food!After our tree hunting Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-81854601778584703532022-11-26T15:44:00.000-06:002022-11-26T15:44:04.080-06:00Anna Sultana’s Gnocchi with Sausage & Tomatoes or with Peas & Pancetta; Homemade Gnocchi / Proof That God Is Not A Woman by Margaret Ullrich Goodness! A week has gone by since I posted the tortellini and spaghetti recipes.Gotta love tortellini and spaghetti. Great budget stretchers.Another budget hero, gnocchi, is easy to make and is a great way to use up leftover boiled or baked potatoes.Along with these recipes, they can also be pan-fried and served with tomato sauce or butter and cheese.Just like tortellini, gnocchi can be Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664226786163096671.post-89521002224128447042022-11-19T20:19:00.000-06:002022-11-19T20:19:31.030-06:00Anna Sultana’s Spaghetti alla Carbonara, Sausage or Meatball Soup with Tortellini, Baked Broccoli and Tortellini / A Christmas Bargain by Margaret Ullrich I won’t lie to you.Any and all shopping this holiday season is going to be a challenge.The
supply chain has gotten all tangled up, meaning staples we’re used to
finding aren’t in their usual places, while something that must have
been gathering dust in some warehouse since the last century is suddenly
in a store.And, thanks to higher transportation costs, the prices - even for that piece of Margaret Ullrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447453176663458811noreply@blogger.com0