My book, Walk Forward, was published on Amazon Kindle Select yesterday. and for the moment it is #6 of 47 in its category!
The book includes foods loved by my family, such as potato pancakes, German spaetzle, homemade applesauce, and streusel kuchen.
I made the best streusel kuchen for my Mom earlier last year and remember how she enjoyed it.
I am so thankful that I took the time to make the yeast dough, while she gently and precisely made and distributed the streusel over the yeast dough base. She created wonderful butter streusel, while sitting at my kitchen table.
I was honored to have her call my house, her "home," for her last three years on this earth.
In my book, Walk Forward, I describe my mother's visits with her cousin Wilma, whose father was a baker. For a barn raising, he would bake huge streusel kuchens and cut them in long strips, about three inches wide. He would place the strips in a layer, and place the next layer of strips over the one below it, going in the opposite direction.
When I close my eyes, I can still smell the streusel kuchen baking in my oven and imagine my Mom sitting in my kitchen. Recipes are connected to family and memories, as are sights and smells in the kitchen. We eat with our nose and our eyes, but also with our memories.
I will include recipes for foods mentioned in the book, Walk Forward, in future posts, but if you are interested in reading about my family and its roots, please check out a free chapter of my book, Walk Forward, on Amazon.com at:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
and "Yes," that is a picture of my Mom, taken in 1938, on the cover of my book.
