{3rd blog-i-versary Giveaway #1} Ice Milk Aprons

About a year ago, I introduced you to Ice Milk Aprons here on ABCD Design. To my great delight, Ashley has been gracious enough to help celebrate my 3rd blog-iversary by offering a present for you. This is your opportunity to win a Rollings of Cinnamon Full Apron (my very favorite design) just in time for your holiday bakery season!
To enter to win this gorgeous Rollings of Cinnamon heirloom apron, please leave a comment on this post telling Ashley and I what your favorite family recipe is. As an added bonus: if you want to blog about (or have ever blogged about) the family story behind the recipe please share the url link in the comments on this post. If you don’t write a blog: Tell your heirloom recipe story right here in the comments section of this post. It is not a prerequisite to win the present, but we both cherish the idea of sharing stories behind family recipes and we’d absolutely love to hear yours.

If you want to help us celebrate and spread the word about the giveaway – pop onto Twitter and tell your followers about the Ice Milk Aprons giveaway. So we are certain to see you tweeting, be sure to use @abcddesigns and @icemilkaprons in your tweet.

The giveaway will be randomly selected from the comments on this post and will be announced one week from today. Thanks, and good luck!

UPDATE: Comments have now closed and the giveaway has ended.

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68 Responses to “{3rd blog-i-versary Giveaway #1} Ice Milk Aprons”

  1. Bruce Barone on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:15 am

    It is more of a story than a recipe.

    Yet, there is a recipe; a recipe for Soup, Ribollita–and a recipe for life, for love, for family.

    http://bruceskitchen.blogspot.com/2010/09/remarkable-dinner-recipe.html

    ~Bruce

  2. susan on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:18 am

    Amy, thanks for the intro to Ashley, her aprons are fabulous. One of my favorite family recipe’s is shortbread.
    My Gram wold make it every time I visited her in England.
    I do not have any exact measurements, but here I go.
    She would mix and make it on a dinner plate(yes a dinner plate, why make a mess she would say)
    Put enough flour to have a small mound in the center, add some sugar.
    Cut up some ice cold butter and with your fingers make into a meal.
    Press, score and poke with a fork.
    Sprinkle sugar on the top.
    Bake until slightly golden.

    It takes a little practice, but it seems to always come out great and my memories of my Gram are so vivid.

  3. Teresa on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:18 am

    Oh. My. Goodness! These are adorable! My aprons are all shapeless and completely unflattering. And since I often wear them at the beginning of dinner parties until the food is prepared, I look like a schmuck! I love this alternative!

    My favorite family recipe is called Brownie Pudding. I thought it was a “secret family recipe” until I saw a similar recipe by Barefoot Contessa. (Hmmmm…. suspicious. Ina Garten a thief?!)

    I share more about the origins of Brownie Pudding in my family, the recipe, and my tips for serving it on a blog post on The Rex & Regina Blog: http://rexandregina.com/blog/2009/10/01/for-your-next-dinner-party-retro-brownie-heaven/.

    It really is heavenly!

  4. Lisa on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:22 am

    Well, if anyone deserves a Happy BlogIversary wish it’s you. What joy, beauty and cool info you bring to those that have been lucky to find you. What humor and fun you bring to those of us who know you personally.
    All the best as you move toward forward in this 3rd year. Here’s wishing you continued greatness and lots more nesting fun.
    xo
    Lisa

  5. traci zeller designs on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:27 am

    Happy blog-iversary!! Love that apron! Hmmmm, favorite family recipe. My MIL (and my hubby) make the most incredible stuffing at Thanksgiving. I am hungry just thinking about it!! It’s the centerpiece of her Thanksgiving meal, which often has 20-30 in attendance!

  6. Sarah H on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:32 am

    Love the adorable aprons. My family recipe is for peanut butter balls. They’re different than the chocolate covered “Buckeyes.” Made with Karo syrup, peanut butter, and Special K cereal, they are to die for!

  7. Jacqueline Presley on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:39 am

    Our heirloom recipe is Italian spaghetti sauce. My dad’s mother’s family was from Italty, so we grew up eating a lot of great Italian food. My grandmother taught my mom how to make her sauce and my mother taught me. Yum!!!

  8. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:54 am

    Whew! Lucky you Jacqueline!
    I’d simply flip to have a recipe like that.

    Thanks for chiming in!
    Good luck,
    ABCD

  9. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:54 am

    Yum! Thanksgiving!!

    Thanks for entering Traci, and best of luck!

  10. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:56 am

    Teresa,

    I appreciate you sharing the link to your recipe! You know, recipes are like fashion – they are all variations on what happened in past generations!
    I betcha that Ina’s grandma made something like it too ~ heck, maybe her grandma went to a recipe swap back in the ’50′s where someone in your family was? ;)

    Thanks for commenting ~ and best wishes!

  11. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:57 am

    Susan ~ grams shortbread=I LOVE IT!! and the lack of real measurements=brilliant.
    xoABCD

  12. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:58 am

    What a wonderful recipe Bruce. I love the sentiment behind it too – Thanks for chiming in! Maybe Susan will have a lovely apron to wear while she is being your soux chef? ;)

    xoABCD

  13. Mallory on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:24 am

    Funny story– I’m actually about to launch The Family Recipes & Stories project over on Moxie Missives. I grew up in my Mimi’s kitchen. She taught me to cook, to bake and to appreciate the little details in life– like how daisies smell in a kitchen full of cinnamon cookies. I’m sending letters to each of the extraordinary cooks on both sides of my new family– mine and my fiance’s– asking them for their favorite family recipe and the story about how it’s significant to the family history. *Hopefully* I’ll be able to build a family tree to pass down to my kids through the recipes and stories I collect.

    As for my personal favorite– Mimi’s Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. There are several secret ingredients and a special technique she used to use to get it to juuust the right moisture. I’m going to use a modified version of the recipe (which is not written down anywhere, and only a handful of us still know all its secrets) for our wedding cake. :)

    -MM.

  14. Michele Varian on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:25 am

    What a great apron for entertaining! I could still be sassy while making my Mom’s turkey stuffing recipe. My sisters and I all make it, but each of us has made it a bit different from each other. In my Mom’s fammily it was her Dad (Gramps) who did all the cooking, so it comes down from him.
    I’ll blog about it when it gets closer to Thanksgiving.

  15. paula on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:34 am

    My favorite family recipe is fried corn. My mom grew up in the south and she was a fantastic cook. Loved her fried corn cooked with cream from the corn, bacon. MMMM good.

  16. ABCD on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:40 am

    Paula!

    Thanks for chiming in ~ I have NEVER had fried corn before, but gosh… I betcha it is amazing! Sweet, fatty, crunchy=YUM!
    Good luck to you ~ winner is announced next Monday!
    xoABCD

  17. Robyn on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:48 am

    I have a few recipes from my grandmother. She is a depression baby. She was taught to make due with what you have. A couple of my favorites are her peach cobbler, brownies and chicken & dumplings. I’m hungry just thinking about them. I am fortunate that she is still with us. Mawzie is 92 years young. She is still on top of her game. You would never know that she’s in her 90s. I hope I have her genes :)

  18. L.Duncan on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:56 am

    This is a fabulous giveaway guys! Seriously! It reminds me of the bridesmaids dresses I wanted my girl to wear from J.Crew! But, they wanted another style…Anywho, All of the recipes that I use are by Martha! My grandmother never knows the exact measurements so she can’t tell me the recipe and then when I would watch her make something, by the time I wanted to make it, it never turns out right! But, fried corn is one that I do know! Thanks Paula for reminding me about it!

  19. Jacquie on 04 Oct 2010 at 11:00 am

    I have two recipes that scream home to me, but since I love chocolate and desserts more than anything, my favorite would be my great-aunt’s recipe for a 7-layer chocolate pound cake that I’ve tweaked and get every birthday.

    To make the frosting, put 12 oz of chocolate chips or chunks in a bowl. Simmer 1/2 cup of whipping cream on the stove (or warm it until it’s simmering in the microwave) and pour over the chocolate. Whisk to melt the chocolate fully, heating it in 5 sec intervals in the microwave until it’s completely smooth. Add 4 tablespoons of softened salted butter and whisk again until smooth. Cool in the refrigerator before whipping it into a thick, stiff peak consistency.

    While that’s cooling, take a store bought frozen pound cake or your favorite homemade pound cake (that you froze) and cut it into 6-7 small layers. Freezing it helps cutting. After whipping the frosting, put one layer on cake on a plate, put a layer of frosting and continue to layer up cake and frosting until you reach the top. Frost the top and the sides before putting it in the refrigerator for a little bit to set. Cut and serve.

    It’s so decadent, but so very good to have every once in a while. Plus seeing all the layers is fun too :)

  20. cynthia at the daily basics on 04 Oct 2010 at 11:14 am

    Darling Amy – you are the best- I love you style & taste and this is so tres cool!

  21. Maggie [The Freckled Citizen] on 04 Oct 2010 at 11:29 am

    Here’s a recipe I introduced to my parents, which has since become a family recipe that everyone makes in their own homes during the holiday season! It’s Dark Molasses Gingerbread Cake with Soft Whipped Cream from Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock’s ‘The Gift of Southern Cooking.’ It also (hint hint) matches this apron beautifully.

    2 cups bleached all-purpose flour or 1 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
    1/4 teaspoon baking soda
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
    1 tablespoon ground ginger
    1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
    1 cup boiling water
    2 eggs, beaten
    1 1/2 cups molasses

    Whipped Cream
    1 cup heavy cream, chilled
    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    2 tablespoons granulated sugar

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

    Sift the flour, soda, and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Using a wire whisk, blend in the spices and salt. Melt the butter in the boiling water, then whisk into the flour mixture. Add the eggs and molasses and whisk until well-blended.

    Turn into a buttered and floured 8x8x2 baking pan and bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, until done, or until a skewer plunged in the center comes out with no trace of raw butter.

    Whip the cream with the vanilla and sugar until it forms soft peaks. Serve with the warm gingerbread.

  22. christina on 04 Oct 2010 at 11:50 am

    What gorgeous aprons! I’d love one. But they’re too pretty to cook in, because I’m so messy in the kitchen.
    My favorite family recipe is one that’s been handed down from my grandmother. She and my grandpa used to own a dry farm up in Idaho. My grandma would work all day to prepare meals for all the men working in the fields. They lived far from town, so most of her meals had to be made using basic staples they had on the farm. The meal I love so much is just basic egg noodles–hand-cut, and boiled in beef broth. Then the noodles and broth are served over a baked potato. Carb overload…but it’s SO good. Now I’m craving it…I may just have to make it for dinner tonight.

  23. Carter on 04 Oct 2010 at 11:58 am

    My favorite family recipe is for “Hello Dolly Bars,” which as I grew older, I realized that others call the same dessert seven-layer bars. Regardless of the name (and we have no idea where it came from other than my great-great aunt), they are delectable! I grew up making them with my mom and now make them with my little girl. This is a wonderful give-away. I would love to wear that apron during the holidays!

  24. Anna on 04 Oct 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Ahhh, Amy, finally a topic I can weigh in on. I have no eye for design, my furniture is all mission-style,direct from the display room floor. I can’t even figure out what color to paint my walls without hiring someone to direct me. I have spent countless years trying to pretend that I am an artist, wandering the “ramp” of the Adams High School art department, with no source of talent or inspiration. One day, while pulling cookies out of the oven, I realized that my artform was baking! Nothing fancy, just brownies, cookies, apple pies…yummy!

    My recipe is that of 4 generations of Swanson, sitting in a kitchen together. Bags of flour and sugar, sticks of butter, and containers of colered sprinkles sit on the counter. It is Chrismas cookie time! I watch my grandmother methodically start in on the Pepperkaker, as she has done for so many years. My mom and aunt sort through the spritzer discs, pulling out the Christmas-themed ones. My sister and I sort through our various recipes from magazines and cookbooks to find the new one that may make it into the annual family line-up. Our little ones run underfoot, deciding which sprinkles will go best on the Christmas trees, and which colors to frost the sugar cookies in.

    For hours we measure, mix, bake, and decorate, laughing about the events of the year, enjoying the time together that we so rarely have.

    At the end of the day we have a buffet of cookies. Green trees, yellow stars, and tie-dyed Santas (decorated by the children!). We each have tupperware containers, and start to sort through the treats, splitting them evenly, making sure to set a plate aside for the family Christmas Eve celebration.

    I head home to share some of the goodies with my husband, realizing that this could be the last year with Grandma, or that I may not be able to make the trek back to Michigan next year. Thank goodness I have the photos to help me remember the day, in case next year is not the same. Please help me look as stylish as possible in those photos as possible!

    Congrats on the anniversary, Amy, it has been so fun keeping up with your blog!

  25. Suzanne Cummings on 04 Oct 2010 at 1:31 pm

    Amy,

    Happy Happy third year blog-i-versary. You just made my Monday a whole lot more cheerful. That apron is definitely to die for! You are a darling from your head to your toes in the most refreshing, genuine (note: consistent) positive way. You are off to a fabulous start to the week. Good going. xo

  26. Claudia on 04 Oct 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Hello ladies! Thanks so much to Ashley for sponsoring the blog-i-versary prize. That’s my favorite apron, too, ABCD.

    To read the blog and the recipe, please visit my blog at: http://mythinchance.blogspot.com/2010/10/family-recipe.html

    How to Make White Sauce

    ♦ 2 tablespoons margarine
    ♦ 2 tablespoons flour (white or whole wheat)
    ♦ 3/8 teaspoon salt
    ♦ 1/8 teaspoon pepper
    ♦ 1 cup milk

    To start, you’ll need a quart-sized saucepan. Melt the margarine in the saucepan over medium heat. Once the margarine is completely melted, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the flour (wheat flour will make a ruddier sauce). It will lump up a little bit, so keep stirring it until it is smooth (a whisk is recommended but a fork works as well). Next, you’ll want to add the salt and pepper and return the pan to the heat. Cook and stir until the flour/margarine mixture bubbles up and sort of sizzles for a moment or two. This step keeps the sauce from having a “raw” flavor, and also permeates the sauce with the seasonings. Slowly stir in the milk so the sauce will not become lumpy – lumpy sauce is not the most pleasing to the eyes, even if it still tastes ok. After the milk has been stirred in, cook the sauce over medium heat until it boils. Stir it often, to prevent it from lumping or burning. When it boils, cook and stir it for a full minute, and then remove it from the heat. It is now done and ready to eat! Tip: Pour over hot toast for a delicious breakfast treat. I’ve heard it’s also tasty with a sprinkling of sugar.

  27. Kelsey on 04 Oct 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Happy Blogiversary Amy!! I LOVE Ice Milk aprons! My favorite recipe is my grandmother’s Meatballs for Choir Boys. The meatballs she made for my Dad’s boys choir when he was really little.

  28. Jonathan Legate on 04 Oct 2010 at 2:32 pm

    HELLO! Gorgeous Apron i’d be thrilled to have on hand for the perfect long weekend hostess gift or any reason. Beautiful.
    Happy Anniversary too BTW!
    xo
    JL

  29. Julia Cantor on 04 Oct 2010 at 3:25 pm

    My favorite family recipe is spinach kugel. Unlike many kugels which are sweet, spinach kugel is savory and can be made quite healthy with whole wheat noodles and extra spinach. The only place I’ve ever had it is at my grandmother’s, mother’s, or sister’s dining room table! @FunFearlessBean (Michelle) just featured it for her Foodbuzz’s Project Food Blog! http://funandfearlessinbeantown.blogspot.com/2010/09/foodbuzzs-project-food-blog-classic.html

  30. b*schus on 04 Oct 2010 at 4:09 pm

    I definitely need a new apron! Very chic. One of my favorite family recipes is a classic Fall dish, but the addition of Mace (vs other recipes I’ve seen) really makes it special. My mom often make it as a side for other dishes, just remove the pork (esp if you’re still eating veggie!)

    Pork, Apple and Squash Bake

    1-2 lbs pork chops (optional: brine overnight in cool salt and spice bath)
    2 pounds butternut or buttercup squash
    ½ cup brown sugar (packed)
    ¼ cup butter, melted
    1 tbs. flour
    1tsp. salt
    ½ tsp. mace
    2 baking apples, cored and cut into ½ inch slices

    Brown pork chops or pork steak and place in the bottom of dutch oven/baking dish. I have learned that if you don’t use the meat, it makes a thicker glaze for the apples and squash. You could add more flour when using pork.

    Heat oven to 350, cut each squash in half, Remove seeds and fibers; pare squash. Cut into ½ inch slices.

    Arrange squash over pork, top with apple slices.

    Stir together remaining ingredients. Sprinkle over the pork, squash and apples. Cover with foil. Bake 50 – 60 minutes or until squash in tender.

    * I have recently begun adding dried cherries along with the apples. It is really good.

  31. Monica N on 04 Oct 2010 at 4:25 pm

    What a fabulous giveaway Amy and a big thanks to Ashley for such a fine prize!

    I don’t have too many family recipes that I can cook, as I am the only vegetarian in the bunch, but that hasn’t stopped me (or my Mom) from trying to adapt everything. My Grandmother used to make these fantastic savory morsels we call “Sopapia’s”, basically flat fried dough, like a pita, filled with beans. The main ingredient was always bacon but over the years my Mom has been making a handful for my husband and I without the pork. Every year, my Mom always asks if anyone wants to help or learn the recipe, and each year a new kid helps her out. Except I’ve never done it. Ever. Even with my Grandma. So this year, I am surprising my Momma and the rest of the family with a giant batch… I just hope I can get them right.

    The only things you need are Masa (you can get it premade in the flour aisle) a little water, oil, cooked beans and a rolling pin. Super easy, and oh my goodness, the best tasting holiday treat ever!

  32. Lindsay on 04 Oct 2010 at 4:25 pm

    Hey… Happy 3 years! How exciting! My favorite family recipe… http://adesignstory.com/homemade-blueberry-cobbler/

    Thanks girl..

    Lindsay @ A Design Story

  33. Jaime on 04 Oct 2010 at 4:33 pm

    What a wonderful giveaway, I love that apron! My favorite family recipe is my grandparent’s pork roast and dumplings – the dumplings are very heavy, we call them “sinker dumplings”. They’re SO yummy – I could sit and eat them one by one every day for the rest of my life…lol. Well, in a dream world anyway. :) Best served with brown gravy, saurkraut and caraway seeds. DELICIOUS! Darn it, now I’m hungry and craving some…lol. Would love to make them in that apron. ;) Have a lovely day!

  34. Brooke on 04 Oct 2010 at 4:50 pm

    My favorite family recipe is my grandmothers chicken noodle soup. I don’t have the recipe… and have been working on recreating it…. I haven’t been successful yet!

  35. courtney on 04 Oct 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Ummm dying over that apron! And just started a series on my blog about heirloom family recipes. Here’s on of my faves that’s been adopted by my family. http://www.merrimentevents.com/2010/09/recipes-for-a-happy-marriage-1/

  36. Lindsey on 04 Oct 2010 at 7:40 pm

    The apron is absolutely adorable!! Our family has lots of recipes that use apples. Growing up my grandmother had an apple orchard, and we would go pick apples and then make homemade apple sauce, apple cobbler, apple crisp, you name it! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

  37. Steve Wilson on 04 Oct 2010 at 9:23 pm

    I wish I could say I have my favourite family recipe, but unfortunately I can’t.

    My grandmother, Esma, was the most amazing cook and baker. On the counter of her kitchen were always 2 giant pickle jars. 1 was always filled with her oatmeal cookies, and a tub of home-made date spread was never far. But it was the 2nd jar that made my mouth water. She made the most amazing molasses cookies, and the jar seemed to be filled with a never-ending stream of them. They were thin, but not fragile; sweet but not cloying; and beautifully spiced, but not spicy. Sort of like what gingerbread men hope to be when they grow up.

    We lost my nan 2 years ago. It was the memories of cooking with her and my other grandmother Marie that started me on the path to becoming a chef. And to this day, when I smell ginger and cinnamon or taste molasses, I remember my nan, and the best cookies I will ever taste.

  38. Lauren on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:01 pm

    Oh my goodness, that apron is so adorable! I love aprons, love love.

    Our family recipe is beef stroganoff (what I ALWAYS picked for my birthday dinner), that I have since turned into turkey stroganoff. Ha! My Mom served it over yummy egg noodles, but my husband and I prefer brown and wild rice. Such old-school, family dinners of yore memories in every bite. Yay!

  39. Stephanie Michele on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:02 pm

    Every Thanksgiving and Christmas my family green beans are a must. A mixture of green beans, sour cream, cream cheese, water chestnuts and seasoning. Bake and serve warm. Oh man, now I can’t wait for the holidays – and hopefully a new apron to wear in the kitchen :)

  40. Amanda on 04 Oct 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Darling apron! A must-have, for sure! Favorite family recipe is Power Cookies, my grandmother’s, and if I win, I’ll post details!

  41. Some Lucky Dog on 05 Oct 2010 at 1:22 am

    My favorite family recipe is for “Cheese Patties”! That’s what we’ve always called them, but they are really blintzes. Both my paternal grandparents/families came from the Volga region of Russia, home of th German-Russian population. Grandma made a sweet crepe filled with a dry cottage cheese mixture that I loved. My Dad also made them, so we had them quite often. When I left home for college I didn’t know how to make them and over the years I never thought to get the recipe. It was after my Grandma and Dad were gone that I learned my older sister knew how to make them! She tried to tell me, but she just puts ingredients in without measuring and when I tried it they weren’t quite right. So one night when we were at her beach place I announced to her that she would be making Cheese Patties and would be measuring each ingredient while I took careful notes. She played along and I now am able to make my own. One of my favorite moments in all of our travels occurred when we were in Russia and invited to dinner at the home of a Volga-German farmer and his family. There on the table along side the goose, potatoes, and vodka was a plate full of something that brought a huge smile to my face…..”Cheese Patties” that were exactly like my grandmother’s!

    someluckydog at gmail dot com

  42. Melissa on 05 Oct 2010 at 9:30 am

    I’ve never commented before, but I’m a regular reader of your blog. I love this apron, it’s so pretty. My favorite family recipe was passed down from my grandmother, it’s for finish coffee bread. My mom taught me how to make it but now calls me for pointers on how to make hers come out better! I only make it around Christmas because it’s so time consuming (but so delicious).

  43. ABCD on 05 Oct 2010 at 9:35 am

    Melissa! Thanks for commenting for the first time today! It’s great to “hear” your voice. :) I too make a swedish coffee bread that only gets made at the holidays due to the amount of time it takes ~ so I totally hear you on that!

    I hope you have a wonderful day, and good luck! The winner will be announced next Monday!
    xoABCD

  44. Wehaf on 05 Oct 2010 at 12:16 pm

    My mom makes chrusciki (pronounced chrishticki) every Christmas; they’re Polish fried cookies dusted with powdered sugar. She learned how to make them from her grandmother, who brought the recipe with her from Poland, now my brothers and sisters and I all know how to make them. I’m not allowed to share the family recipe, but there are plenty of recipes online if you look up “chrusciki” or “Polish angle wings”.

  45. Cailin on 05 Oct 2010 at 1:00 pm

    I love your blog and thank you for such a sweet giveaway!

    My favourite baking recipe is my nana’s shortbread cookies we make every Christmas. I remember making them with my nana. unfortunately she passed away a couple years ago. But we still make them every year with my mom and remember all the times we spent with my nana and what a wonderful person she was.

  46. Katie @ goodLife {eats} on 05 Oct 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Our favorite recipes changes all the time. Right now it is Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls.

  47. Amalia on 05 Oct 2010 at 4:23 pm

    Perfect recipe! Thanks for the chance you give us!

  48. sandy@oohlafroufrou on 05 Oct 2010 at 9:31 pm

    Amy, the Ice Milk Aprons are just fabulous. I just love the glamorous black sash — so Ooh La Frou Frou, no?

    Gosh, I’ve been trying to figure out which family recipe to talk about. I thought about the recipe for my Chicken Cordon Bleu just because it was so fun when my son was asked on a school paper what his favorite food was and he said “chicken corn on blue” (I know, toooo cute). And I thought about all the many many family recipes that we’ve made through the years: My grandma’s chicken and dumplings or her homemade biscuits that I remember watching her make when my nose was as tall as the kitchen counter; or the apple turnovers my mom would fry up when we lived on an apple orchard in Clarkston, Michgian and our whole house, car and clothes smelled like apples in the fall; or my chicken casserole recipe topped with cheesy biscuits that’s so cozy on a fall evening with a glass of white wine; or, my dad’s favorite southern banana pudding that makes his eyes light up; or the sweet potato casserole that has graced every family Thanksgiving table I can remember. There are so very many yummy recipes I just couldn’t pick one so I just mentioned them all and the recipe could be given for any of the above at anytime you like.

    I’ll go tweet away about the giveaway now and maybe, just maybe, have a chance at this fabulous oh-so-glamorous apron!

    Thanks to both you and Ice Milk Aprons for this giveaway … oh, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! xo

  49. alexa on 05 Oct 2010 at 9:57 pm

    I came to America over 35 years ago when I was only 18. I married & raised my children here. When my girls were growing up every Christmas I would bake my mother’s homemade bread recipe from Portugal. And now my daughter is a mother herself and is continuing this tradition with her children. I would love to win this apron to offer it to her.

  50. Debbbie @TheHipHostess on 05 Oct 2010 at 10:34 pm

    Just had to stop by and wish you a wonderfully Happy 3rd Blog-i-versay! It’s been a joy to meet you, and a joy to follow your journey to your new country home. You put the most creative and charming touch to everything you do and you are a constant source of inspiration to me. Some of your amazing recipes are now on my go-to dishes to make list, making my life as constant hostess this summer so easy. I could not have gotten through the summer season without your Vodka Slush!!
    It goes without saying that I’m an Apron lover and may I just say that Ashley’s Ice Milk Aprons are absolutely exquisite! Her designs are timeless.
    So cheers to you, my dear and Happy Anniversary!

  51. caroline h. on 05 Oct 2010 at 10:45 pm

    My favorite family memory is having yorkshire puddings at christmas. My parents are divorced and every year my siblings and I celebrate christmas early with my mom. my mom is english and we always have a traditional english christmas dinner. yorkshire puddings are my favorite part. unfortunately I lack all ability to cook english food so I don’t have a recipe for making them. but I would love a beautiful apron to inspire my cooking.

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  53. Sarah @ Natural History on 06 Oct 2010 at 10:52 am

    I’m not quite sure what to do about this. Every so often I come across something so delicious that I passionately wish that I had designed it myself – there was the stand at Maison et Objet that made me positively SICK with envy, the hats in a tiny shop in New York that I wanted to buy all of on the spot, and these aprons. Perhaps the answer is to kidnap Ashley & keep her in my house (looking after her kindly, of course) so that she can design all of my clothes? I love her palette and flourish. Perhaps I’ll just have to satisfy myself with getting one of her aprons…

    As for an heirloom recipe… well, my mother was always a wonderful cook (the least said about my grandmother’s cooking, the better) and baker. She was positively famous for her pavlovas which always rose exquisitely & were as foamy and light inside as you could ever desire – none of those nasty hard pavlovas for her. When I was little, my parents had a family party (one of many – my mother loved to entertain, as do I) and she made several pavlovas. When people expressed wonder and amazement at how spectacularly risen they were and how they *stayed* so well risen, my father discreetly (and well out of my mother’s hearing) told everyone that she used Polyfilla. Marvelously, and mind-bogglingly, many people believed him YET DID NOT STOP EATING. I could tell you the recipe, but I have never made it work for me the way it did for her, sadly.

  54. Tonia on 07 Oct 2010 at 7:33 am

    I thought I had entered this one, so here I am :) It’s some great recipes here. I’m going to have to try a few. I cook more in the Fall and Winter months.

  55. Margaret Murphy Tripp on 07 Oct 2010 at 7:37 am

    Well that is so cute, it’s SEXY. I’d have to beat the hubs off with a stick! How would I get any cooking done? DEFINITELY Want it!!!!!

  56. Martha on 07 Oct 2010 at 12:26 pm

    The apron is so cute – I’d love to own it! A family recipe that passed on from my dad’s mom to my mom and now to me is called Torte Pudding – it’s a delicious meringuey cake with vanilla wafers crumbled on top and then topped with fresh raspberries and juice. So light and sugary and delicious!

  57. marie on 08 Oct 2010 at 3:58 am

    That is one chic & classy apron! Family recipe is a tres leches cake. Moist & oh so delicious :)

  58. Marti Steed on 08 Oct 2010 at 5:46 pm

    The favorite home recipe has to be a tie between Peanutbutter Chuck Wagon Cookies and Mabel’s Screwball Cake. The basic PB cookie is stuffed with all natural peanutbutter, fork marks to to seal the two sides and bake until brown. The Screwball cake, named because there are no eggs or milk or cream and the recipe sounds like a mudd pie, is the most dense chocolate cake you will ever make. Flour, sugar, oil, vinegar, water, salt, vanilla and cocoa are all the ingredients. Things you most always have in the house anyway. You make the cake in the pan you mix it in (no flouring the pan). So good you don’t need icing!!! Great with mocha icing though and a little bit of instant espresso in the mix is a nice touch too!

  59. joyce on 09 Oct 2010 at 11:31 am

    I wear aprons, and this one is exceptional, especially for holidays-joyce

    This is the best apple nut cake you will EVER taste—

    Apple Nut Cake with Lemon Cheese Icing

    Cake -Oven 325

    2 eggs beaten
    2 cups sugar
    1 tsp. pure vanilla
    2 cups flour
    2 tsp. baking soda
    2 tsp. cinnamon
    1 cup chopped walnuts
    4 cups finely chopped apple

    Beat eggs, sugar, & vanilla, -beat in the oil till smooth. Sift together flour, soda, cinnamon and slat. Stir dry ingredients into egge misture. Add nuts & apples& mix well. Turn into a greased & floured 11×7″ pan & bake for 1 hour.

    Icing
    2 -3oz. pkgs. cream cheese
    2 Tbsp half & half
    1/2 soft butter
    4 cups sifted confectioners sugar
    1 Tbsp lemon juice
    dash of salt

    Soften cream cheese at room temperature, add half & half, butter, sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt—
    beat till fluffy -enjoy, joyce

  60. Elyse on 09 Oct 2010 at 9:21 pm

    My favorite family recipe is the garlic chicken that my mom makes. It is a meal that always manages to bring people together. We have had it to mark many special occasions and some ordinary experiences. Eating the dish never fails to bring back the memories of the happy times.

  61. NatalieG on 10 Oct 2010 at 8:14 am

    My family heirloom recipe is one I haven’t even made yet! When my husband and I moved into our house last Spring my aunt gifted me with a bowl of family traditions including a Polish cookbook and other little trinkets all the women in our family have in their kitchens. Anyway — the biggest surprise in there was my great grandmother’s pierogi recipe. It’s three pages long hand-written. The recipe came to my aunt through her own aunt (who learned to make them from her MIL, my great grandmother). The measurements aren’t exact and there are a lot of notes about learning how the dough should feel. I recently found out that my grandmother doesn’t even have this recipe so I think I am going to take it over to her house and we will learn how to make her MIL’s peirogi together.

  62. Courtney Fulmer on 10 Oct 2010 at 10:08 am

    I am so excited that I found this blog!!! It’s funny that it happened to be the weekend I came back home to visit my family in small town, rural PA. I love it here in the fall, which is my favorite time of year, along with Halloween being my favorite holiday. I never thought it could beat out Christmas, but the fall seems to be much more of a meaningful time of year; where we are not all taken up with buying Christmas gifts and lost in the media’s rendition of Christmas. We can simply enjoy family/friends and great conversation over yummy food!

    I would love to be able to enjoy one of Ashley’s aprons as well!!! They are so beautiful!!!

    My mom makes this every Christmas morning to go along with the egg casserole. It’s an amazing combination!

    Recipe:

    Hot Fruit
    2 C drained pineapple cubes (set aside drained juice)
    2 C sliced peaches drained (set aside drained juice)
    1 Jar cherries drained (” “)
    1 C juice (from the juice set aside)
    1/2 C brown sugar
    3 tsp butter
    2 1/2 tsp minute tapioca
    Cover – Bake at 350 – 25 minutes

    Hope you enjoy!

  63. Cindy on 10 Oct 2010 at 3:24 pm

    I can’t imagine owning such a beautiful apron, especially one that comes in the colors of my loft :) . My father was a Michigan State Policemen. In those days they would move about every 2-3 years. The families were the most hospitable people that I have ever known. At the end of the month, we’d always have these amazing potlucks. A few years ago, I meet another mom who had been a state trooper kid and started sharing stories. She reminisced that she had always loved those potlucks and mentioned it to her mom at a family gathering. Her mom laughed and told her that the families would “make something” with whatever was left in the fridge, that it was the only way they could stretch the food budget until the end of the month!

  64. MaryBeth I on 10 Oct 2010 at 5:28 pm

    My grandma’s x-mas cookies – years after her death, I inherited the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I ended up making sugar cut-out cookies and at first taste I knew these were the ones my grandma used to make. SO good. It brought tears to my eyes because this was almost 15 years later.

  65. LAMusing on 10 Oct 2010 at 6:35 pm

    What a beautiful apron! My favorite family recipe is Stouffato – a greek stew. I learned it from my Greek Grandpa, who learned it from his Grandmother.

  66. Rebecca on 11 Oct 2010 at 10:18 am

    I wish this had a back – it’d make such a beautiful dress! Favorite family recipe, hmmm so many to choose from! Easter Egg bread from my great aunt Kate.

  67. Gay on 11 Oct 2010 at 10:49 am

    My grandma’s pizza – she was this funny woman who let us help her roll out the dough and always told jokes about dough – odd to think there ARE any! I can’t share the recipe because I’ve been sworn to secrecy and she’d haunt me if she knew. Honest.

  68. ABCD on 11 Oct 2010 at 2:28 pm

    Congratulations! You won the Ice Milk Apron Giveaway ~ please email me so that I can put you in touch with Ashley. She will mail your Rollings of Cinnamon Ice Milk Apron directly to you.

    Thanks again for entering to win!
    Kind regards,
    ABCD

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