Community Recipes
We’re having a great time collecting your favorite Thanksgiving Day recipes for our Community Cookbook and we hope you keep sending them! (Just email lillian.mongeau@oaklandnorth.net. Subject: RECIPE. And include a few words about where the recipe came from.) Today, our featured recipe comes to us from Tonya, no last name given, who wrote that she’s been making this hardy dish for nearly 15 years. The best part of it is that it travels well and can be prepared a day…
We’ve been collecting your Thanksgiving recipes and now we’d like to welcome you to our Online Community Cookbook. Check out your neighbors’ favorite Thanksgiving recipes.
Serina Elliott is a graduate of the Kitchen of Champions Culinary Training Program of St. Vincent de Paul. She was previously featured in a video on OaklandNorth.net about the culinary program’s Guest Chef Series and has gone on to complete her first year of culinary classes at Laney College. In another year she will be a college graduate! Mama’s Persimmon Bread Recipe creates two 9-inch loaves. 3½ cups sifted flour 1½ teaspoons salt 2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground…
I’ve been enjoying Thanksgiving with a group of good friends for the past thirty-some years. We all cook, and the various members’ contributions range from the traditional to the exotic. I myself took the yummy prize once with a batch of pumpkin pecan tamales. One year one of our members brought a big bowl of curried bananas, and it was such a hit that we’ve included it in our menu every year since. Enjoy! Curried Bananas Ingredients 6 lbs. bananas,…
I found this recipe in a magazine about 15 years ago. I think it was in Gourmet but I’m not 100 percent certain. I adapted the original recipe a bit and have been making it ever since. It compliments almost any kind of main meat dish and is always very popular. The nice thing about this rice is that it travels very well so it’s the perfect dish to take if you are driving some place for Thanksgiving and need…
This recipe was submitted by Chef Michael Stamm, the Executive Chef Instructor for the Kitchen of Champions, a culinary training program offered by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County and a 3-time Olympic medal winner (Swimming, 1974). Nana’s Famous Peanut Butter Chews with Icing Ingredients 2/3 cup shortening (butter or margarine) 1 cup brown sugar 2 cups sugar 1 cup peanut butter 4 eggs 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder…
This Kuro mame (black beans) recipe comes from a program the Buddhist Church of Oakland (BCO) held 12 years ago, highlighting food for the Oshogatsu (New Year’s) celebration. New Year’s is an important time in Japanese culture. Many of the foods served on this occasion are symbolic and come from the Buddhist tradition. Mame translates to “beans,” but also means “health.” When the black beans are combined with chestnuts (kuri, symbolizing success) and kelp (kombu, symbolizing joy), the dish symbolizes…
Pickling perfect peppers isn’t all that hard, and canning is an inexpensive way to produce charming, memorable homemade holiday gifts. See Richard Parks’ video on making the perfect pepper Escabeche.
A great little recipe by Mary Riehle, who teaches knitting at the Lakeview branch of the Oakland Public Library. She’s also published a book of Christmas cookie recipes. Here’s her recipe for Mexican Wedding Cakes (also called “Russian Tea Cakes”). Mexican Wedding Cakes Ingredients 1 cup butter 1/2 cup powdered sugar 2 cups flower 1 cup very finely chopped pecans A little vanilla extract Here’s how you make these cakes, according to Marie: Heat the oven to “300 or 325.”…