Remembrances, Residences, Recipes, and a Family Tree

Remembrances, Residences, Recipes, and a Family Tree includes more than two hundred recipes. You will find them located in eleven chapters. A sampling of the unique offerings are: Chocolate Mousse Torte with Cold Zabaglione Sauce Clementine and Jicama Salad Penne with Wilted Arugula, Radicchio and Smoked Cheese Sautéed Chicken with Olives, Capers and Roasted Lemons and Smoked Salmon Bundles. Cooking is a very personal undertaking and each reader is encouraged to individualize each recipe to her/his own tastes. There is perhaps no better way to reconnect with good friends and family than to "break bread" over a dinner table, sharing food, drink and stimulating conservation. Bon Appetit!

Connie Erickson Rosenquist began working on the cookbook Remembrances, Residences, Recipes, and a Family Tree over five years ago. In the 1970's and 1980's she enjoyed gourmet dinner groups in Fullerton, California and Bel Air, Maryland. At these monthly gatherings, the hostess would choose a country or theme and plan the menu. She prepared the entrée, purchased the beverages to be served, and assigned the other items including salad, vegetable, and dessert to others in the group. Two of the countries featured by Connie when she hosted were Greece and India. Always interested in food preparation, Connie loved serving on a committee that prepared and published After Five with Children's League: A Gourmet's Guide to Serving Delectable Hors d' oeuvres in 1977. The proceeds of the book were used for further operation and expansion of the Children's Center Complex and to benefit youth activities in Fullerton. Connie and other members, all volunteers, shared some of their favorite recipes. A friend and fellow member, Dottie Gigliotti, provided sketches. In 2004, Connie selected poems written by her and her husband Bob's son, Karl Robert, and had a book published posthumously with iUniverse. This tribute is entitled Awake Unto Me. Dr. Rosenquist received a BA degree from Northwestern University, a MA from the University of Florida and a PhD from UCLA. A professor of English at Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California. Karl died tragically and unexpectedly of a diabetic hypoglycemic reaction in July 2003.