October 14, 2006
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Have you ever lost a recipe of which you were quite fond, and can NOT find it?
I don't mean the it's-here-in-one-of-these-cookbooks sort of lost....I mean the it'd-been-cut-out-of-a-magazine-and-can't-be-located sort of lost.
Lost lost.
Whenever fall comes around I remember one of my favorite cakes, which was a simple cinnamon cake, baked in a square cake pan. Called for 1 T. of ground cinnamon, if I remember correctly. Used to sprinkle sugar on the top when I took it out of the oven, plus squirt some whipped cream on it for good measure. Yummmmm! It was cheap and very tasty. I can still recall the fateful day I went to wherever it was I kept the clipped recipe only to find it wasn't there. Searched and searched and searched, but it never turned up, and looking on the internet (including Recipezaar and Allrecipes.com) hasn't been successful. That critter is g-o-n-e. Very depressing. Were I a better cook, understanding the science, I could probably recreate it. It was just a white cake with a lot of cinnamon, when you get right down to it. Unfortunately, I'm the sort who has to have a recipe to at least start with, though I'm quite willing to fiddle with it somewhat. But starting without a recipe at all? Never been one to do that. Those people who come up with Pillsbury Bake-Off recipes have my respect and admiration, for they're presumably starting from scratch.
Fortunately there's another clipped-from-the-newspaper recipe I've managed to hang on to, and it's a Chicken Enchilada Bake. Haven't made it in years now, and really need to. To make sure I don't let it go the way of that cinnamon cake, I've entered it as a web page and linked to it in the Cookbook section over there to the left.
If you can't think of anything to fix for dinner, give it a whirl.
Comments (3)
Thanks for posting the recipe Anne! I made them tonight and enjoyed them. I didn't use the full can of green chiles, being the chicken that I am, but feel brave enough to do it next time. It wasn't spicy at all with half a can. I also should've added some salt. I, unfortunately, tend to add salt too much and so when I don't, I notice it. Thankfully, salt is easy enough added after a dish is made. The enchiladas were delicious! Plus, I have some extra if you'd like them for dinner tomorrow night. There's enough for the three of you.
BTW, your cinnamon cake sounds like a simple coffee type cake. Just find one of the recipes on zaar that seems similar and go for it. Make it gluten-free and I'll be your taste tester.
What I do now (after having lost any number of recipes) is....I write them in the back of my Fannie Farmer cookbook (there's a couple of blank pages back there...which are now full, of course). I also have a binder that I put the recipes in after I type them up on the computer, print them out and stick them in a protective sheet (of course, the trick is then to not pull the protected sheet out of the binder EVER)
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