Breads and Such

Blue Corn Waffles, Fried Red Chile & Hopi Memories

2 November 2009 by Jean Johnson
After the Sixties in Flagstaff where better to go and chill out than Indian County. Call me lucky. I managed to cobble together an education degree and spent the next decade out on Navajo and Hopi posing as a school teacher. It's true, I arrived looking for smoke and feathers--the ...

Rolled Ups (Crepes) for Mother’s Day

8 May 2009 by Jean Johnson
Crepes if you must, but as in the recipe below from Cooking Beyond Measure (page 38), we just call these easy babies Rolled Ups. Crepes have an aura of being special--and hard to make. Special, yes. But au contraire on the latter. For those who really think crepes are beyond them, ...

It’s the Raspberries–and Adios, Amigo

27 June 2008 by Jean Johnson
The vines grandpa planted out back sixty years ago are in full flourish this year. The first of the berries ripening now. It's as it should be since I want to give some to Paul. He's been bringing the mail to our street for close to twenty years--and it's his last week. If Paul didn't ...