On Friday morning I woke up with a sinus headache, so I was glad when my walking partner had forgotten our date, and wasn’t really ready to go. I thought about going back home and getting back in bed, but instead I walked downtown through light snow, almost ice pellets, and got my work laptop, [...]
I had a nice little day after birthday party last night, but I took no pictures at all. I meant to … Even though I’ve always been a birthday pie kinda girl – as is my entire family, boys and girls and even the married-ins – I wanted cake this year, so I baked myself [...]
Started with a Willy St. Co-op finance committee, after which I got to drive my car out the back exit of the parking lot to Jenifer St. Nothing happened – I didn’t run over any kids or old ladies, or people my own age, houses didn’t crumble to dust. I just pulled out, turned left, [...]
Mark went for a walk and I ate vegetable leftovers for dinner, braises, I guess: Molly Wizenberg’s cabbage braised in cream and Splendid Table’s tumeric braised potatoes. We talked about staying in and watching movies on DVD or streamed – with dessert. With thoughts of all the frozen fruit I’ve got downstairs – peaches, blueberries, [...]
I joined a virtual cooking club for Dorrie Greenspan’s Around my French Table – French Fridays with Dorrie. The recipe for this week – October 29 – was Marie-Helene’s apple cake. I made two of them for a Saturday morning brunch, for a 30th wedding anniversary. My cakes were a little too thin, because I [...]
Last night to use up some too-ripe-to-eat-for-breakfast bananas, I made one layer of banana cake, with chocolate frosting, all based on a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, that was also inspired by overripe bananas. I link to her, and read her often, but I had never used one of her recipes. This one for banana cake, [...]
So my edible book contest cake didn’t win anything. There was a critic’s choice – our critic was Raphael Kadushin – and two runners up, plus people’s choice awards in four categories. Come to think of it, nothing I voted for won anything, either. My cake was just a cake, albeit with stuff on top. [...]
I got a Mario Batali Chianti Red Panini Press on sale from Sur la Table. It’s been sitting on the sideboard, because I don’t have any place to store it, but I finally tried it out Sunday night – it makes a damn good sandwich. I had a couple of rye cocktail breads with Jarlsberg, [...]
