TO REACH USFare Exchange is a longtime meeting place for people who love to cook and love to eat. We welcome both your recipes and your requests. Be sure to include precise instructions for every recipe you send.• Mailing address: Jane Henegar, 913 Mount Olive Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750• E-mail: chattfare@gmail.com
Jane HenegarGood morning. Today’s requests are where to purchase Cutco knives and how to cook: A cookie cake that is not chocolate or chocolate chip, an ice cream cake like the ones sold at local specialty ice cream shops, chocolate-covered espresso beans and recipes using those beans, finely chopped.
Carol McKee saw the mention of Cutco knives and wants to know where to buy them. Good Granny, preparing for an onslaught of birthdays, wants a non-chocolate, birthday-worthy cookie cake and instructions for making an ice cream birthday cake. She reminded us, too, that we have never gotten a recipe for chocolate-covered espresso beans, and for recipes using those beans.
As I sit in a snow-globe world writing these words, I am thinking of the power of the visual. Thanks to you, H.B., for sending your own photograph of your version of the Easy Chicken and Dumplings recipe printed recently. They looked so good I wanted to go to visit my friend and sample. It is possible to have too many photographs in thinking of food, however. A recent blogpost describing a mocha dessert had such a string of photographs that it took much scrolling down to arrive at the recipe. No need to see what the eggs in the bowl look like; tell us how to mix them in.
Polenta popped out at Jane Stewart of Lookout Mountain when she opened a recent Exchange. “You see, this week I made polenta for the very first time and with pork stew on top. The recipe is below.” She got it from the food blog at www.italianfoodforever.com.