Steve Stuckmeyer, Safety and Risk Services A no-frills recipe – but perfect for anyone heading out into the backcountry with a Dutch (or Swedish Omnia) oven and desiring a fresh-cooked dessert. I learned of it from my father-in-law, who either found it on the back of a cake mix box or came up with it […]
Dayle Gregory, Institutional Research Everyone in my family has always had a food that they have specialized in. For my mother it was deviled eggs. My aunt makes amazing fudge. My grandfather makes delicious chocolate chip cookies. Caramels have always been a favorite candy of mine and it wasn’t until I saw this video from […]
Claire Matese, Institutional Research I grew up in Louisiana, and brought some of that culture with me to Oregon – and by culture I mean food! Since 2015 we’ve hosted a Mardi Gras dinner at our house each year, complete with gumbo, red beans and rice, and King Cake. Our 2020 Mardi Gras gathering was […]
Jamie Moffitt, Finance and Administration When I was a child, I used to purposely not eat the bananas in our house in the hopes that my mom would be forced to make banana bread. She adamantly believed that it was perfectly acceptable to use brown (or even sometimes almost black) bananas for this recipe. “It […]
Anna Hindley, VPFA Office I was raised in London, England, by American and British parents. I was going to share my paternal grandmother’s Yorkshire pudding recipe, even though she’s from Nottinghamshire, but I see Shannon Rose from Human Resources (ELR) has shared a recipe for Dutch Baby, which is practically the same thing, except that […]
Stuart Laing, Budget and Resource Planning I grew up with a Mother who baked every weekend. She passed along her cook books to me and my brother. Before the pandemic, we updated our kitchen oven to a bigger oven. Friends said…. Start baking, Stuart. I thought – Croissants are something my mother would be proud […]
Susan Osterman, FASS Purchasing My mother was a very proud French-Canadian lady who passed away in early June this year. She had often reminisced about a cake her mother made growing up, Gateau Froid au Café. This year for Mother’s Day, she translated the recipe from French into English, we made the cake and it’s […]
Drea Razdan, Human Resources Growing up our family celebrated special occasions by making delicious frybread and prepared Indian tacos for large family get togethers/celebrations. Frybread originated over 144 years ago linking generation with generation. They way it is served varies from region to region and different tribes have different recipes. Fry Bread is extremely versatile. […]
Shannon Rose, Human Resources ELR This is an excellent opportunity for me to share a favorite recipe from my childhood for – Dutch Babies! (some folks call them German Pancakes, but I remember as a kid that’s what we called them and I thought it was a hilarious joke to talk about having Dutch Babies […]
Liz Thorstenson, Campus Planning Pfeffernusse (Peppernut cookies) are special to me because they connect me to my maternal grandmother, who made these every December. She would even bake and package these up to send to me when I was studying abroad. I was lucky enough to grow up with two German grandmothers, one whose maiden […]
