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Japanese Cucumber Salad
The latest of my grandmother’s recipes is a five-star winner and a perfect zingy pick me up for cold February evenings.

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Rose’s Recipes | Brownies with Cocoa Glaze
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When in Rome… Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
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What is Rose’s Recipes
I’m cooking my way through all of them, the good the bad and the dated! As a memorial to my grandmother and also as a trip into the culinary past.
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Rose’s Recipes | Grandmother’s Banana Bread
Could there be a more appropriate way to begin this project? When I found this in the stack of my Grandmother’s recipes I knew it was the first one I had to try. THE ORIGIN This recipe wasn’t my Grandmother’s own. It was clipped from the American Srbobran, the newspaper of The Serb National Federation. […]
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Rose’s Recipes | The Project
Why I’m cooking my way through my Grandmother’s recipe collection.
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Rose’s Recipes | Insanely Tasty Japanese Cucumber Salad
This insanely tasty and super easy pickled cucumber salad with a Japanese twist will make your tase buds sing.
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Rose’s Recipes | Squash-Apple Soup
Three days into November and Britain has jumped into full Christmas mode. Despite this enthusiasm however, the weather is still decidedly autumnal. So in keeping with the season I thought I would test a soup recipe from my Grandmother’s collection. THE ORIGIN This is a more recent clipping. Probably from when Baba jumped on the […]