Salted Caramel

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 […]

Banana Bread

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 […]

Croissants

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 […]

Gateau Froid au Café

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 […]

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