Minka Cooks

In 1979 our dear family friend Nell Simala taught me how to make potica (po-teet-sa), a well-known commodity in my hometown, Pueblo Col...

Chocolate cake without chips For the last three Passovers, I've adapted a chocolate cake recipe. This year's is the best...

It's pumpkin pie minus the fuss and calories of the crust! This is an amalgam of several recipes. This recipe calls for a can of p...

Chunky pink applesauce My father had a Jonathan apple tree in the backyard.  (See below.) I remember sitting outside with my dad peeling...

Roasted peaches and peach schnapps are the secret to this recipe. It's a way to get the peach flavor without drowning the batter in p...

Arg! I wrote it, saved it, shredded my notes. Saved it to post another day....and now it's gone...ARG!!! Blogger I hate you!

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'm posting yet another version of the Lhassi Pudding recipe . This time, I added kiwi a...

Every year, I revise my recipe for Passover chocolate cake. Here's the link to the 2013 edition -- the best ever! It's even better...

My niece and I created this vegan dessert. The plan was to come up with a sorbet but, it was so good we never did freeze it. It's im...

My cousin Robyn is my first guest chef! She posted this recipe online in honor of her daughter's birthday. The recipe is clearly a fami...

This is a very popular recipe . . . because it's simple and delicious.  I've reformatted the recipe to make it easier for me to u...

Double recipe is here . Blueberry Buckle is basically a coffeee cake with berries in it -- lots of them. This summer, I  increased the...

Single recipe is here . Aug 12, 2011: I just updated the recipe. More berries. No more shortening; all oil. It's bigger and will ne...

The cupcakes were for a bridal shower at work (the groom is my coworker). I used a white cake mix for the cupcakes (because that's wha...

For the story behind this recipe and a discussion of the ingredients, see the single recipe . This is a dairy recipe. If you substitute ...

Click here  for double recipe. These brownies make a delicious Passover treat.  I've been making some variation on this recipe for yea...

Note, if you do not like coconut, you may not care for this recipe. On the other hand, if you love coconut but are not supposed to eat it (b...

1935 Seder. Adelyn Strait Raich (3rd from L); Rose and Harry Strait (4th and 3rd from R) Click on photo to enlarge it. Note: I finally ...

Here we go again, another sorbet recipe! The bag of frozen strawberries is larger than the bags of other frozen fruits (mango and raspberr...

This is another simple dessert -- similar to the raspberry yogurt sorbet, but I used less sugar (1/3 cup instead of ½ cup). Considering th...