On this same night, November 30th, one year ago in cookie season, I allowed as how I was being a wimp – knocking off early. But it looks as if I made three kinds of cookies that night (or at least glazed a kind, and mixed a dough, and baked one kind) – and tonight [...]
…or, I tried. I had big ideas about using up lots of odds & ends from the fridge, in various dishes – but I still ended up throwing food away – UN-characteristically, at least I hope. I made the last of the caramelized onions from the galettes into onion dip with creme frâiche and sour [...]
Trying to create detente between instagram & Tumblr. They’re still not really talking – I can email photos from instagram to Tumblr, but I don’t like the way the post looks as well as I like a simple URL post on Tumblr – see below. But at least I can post, and use all those [...]
Yesterday I got home from work a little early, and decided to do some cooking. Sometimes when you try to do too much …. I tried this Chez Pim pie crust for a cherry pie with the cherries we brought back from our Washington Island trip. And I read “8 oz. butter” as one stick [...]
We are going to have an AFS student this school year, a 17-year old Italian girl. We picked her up yesterday afternoon. I made some dinner for us – pasta with a fresh tomato sauce, and cucumber sour cream salad. Nothing came out quite the way I wanted it to. The basil in the pasta [...]
In 2009, I made John a salted caramel chocolate tart for his birthday. I think it was the cover recipe in Saveur that month. It was good, but I got the caramel just a little too dark, and I never made another. Today, just a few days away from John’s birthday 2011, I was browsing [...]
Since it’s the week before Christmas, I went to work-related holiday parties the last two nights. The first was at the home of two of the younger faculty members in my department, so it was a collection of mostly 30- and 40-something professional people, some in their 20s, a fair number of kids in the [...]
Monday I had a meeting, so I didn’t start baking till close to 8 p.m. I made the Moravian Ginger Thins, but I don’t think they’re as thin as last years, which seems odd to me since last year I was rolling with broken thumb. I decided to make a double batch of the rainbow [...]
Yesterday morning, when I opened up the closed-off and & closed-heat-vent sun room, where I had left the naked ginger creams so that the cats wouldn’t try to steal them, the smell of gingerbread made all the late night baking worthwhile. mmm, like the ghosts of Christmas past. I made a lot of the ginger [...]
So it’s been a funny couple of days of cooking. My first winter share CSA box was arriving on Thursday, so I was trying to use up as much as possible from prior boxes. I’ve been trying more dishes for French Fridays with Dorie. I had the fixings for a lovely salad: roasted beets, roasted [...]
