I think it must be rhubarb custard tart. The first time I tried to make one, I left out the sugar in the filling, and it didn’t brown. Tonight I remembered the sugar, but the case leaked, and since I had the flan ring on parchment on a dark colored pan – one I normally use [...]
And a coconut cake that crumbled, and a green salad with little tomatoes, that Jean brought. That’s what we ate with the neighbors tonight. The lasagna had that pureed tomato sauce, that I make with my home-frozen tomatoes. Tuesday, I made a big batch with the last 4 bags of tomatoes from last summer (after [...]
On Friday night I tried to make pasta sauce – bacon, celery, onions, and tomatoes frozen from last summer. And a splash of wine left from the party last week. After I put in the wine, the sauce got a funny smell – like plastic. I think it was the wine – Mark thought it [...]
I was worried about this bread when I took it out of the oven – it seemed spongey rather than crusty, and I was afraid, because of the hot weather, that it would be like a sour dough loaf I baked last fall, on a hot day, that came out big and overblown and white. [...]
It’s still “unseasonably warm” here is WI – it was 81° today, ad it’s still in the high 60s at almost 10 p.m. In the morning, Rach and I walked, and because I thought my first advising appointment was by Skype, I figured I’d just do it at home. But when I got on and [...]
I’m going to go ahead and tell you all the things that didn’t come out quite right – by my lights, not the diners – on the New year’s day brunch menu. First I somehow went brain dead, and instead of pilaf-ing the Hoppin’ John – that is transferring the rice and beans and liquid [...]
So, my grandmother, my mom’s mom, is of the main reasons I make all these cookies at holiday time, and send out goodie boxes to the family. She always did, and opening the box and finding out what was inside, what new recipes she’d tried this year, was always great fun – especially when my [...]
An attempt at an annotated list of the cookie season – Sunday night (12/4): Moravian ginger thins, slice & bake doughs Monday morning (12/5): cornmeal anise biscotti Monday night (12/5): cranberry-pistachio slices, fruitcake fruit slices Tuesday morning(12/6): almond hazelnut biscotti Tuesday night (12/6): almond cinnamon stars, windmill Wednesday night (12/7): gember koekjes, orphan cranberry-pistachio slices, [...]
Cinnamon stars I was really looking forward to making these cookies. I made them last year for the first time, although I’d been looked at the recipe for years, since it was part of a Swiss cookies feature in the December 1994 Gourmet magazine, and I’ve been making the Biberli from that issue probably since [...]
I am suffering from cookie guilt – that feeling that I’m just not doing enough. On Thursday evening, I went to what I thought was going to be Recall Walker training, but turned out to be phone banking. Although not an unpleasant experience, for two reasons: 1) the technology has improved dramatically since the last [...]
