Last weekend I was in San Diego for the grocery co-op conference. I got back, and now we’re leaving again for the librarians’ conference in New Orleans. Yesterday I took in Rach’s orphan produce ‘cuz she’s traveling a lot too – we had a smoothie made from her strawberries & a banana for breakfast this [...]
Last night for supper I made Dorie Greenspan’s pommes dauphinois – potatoes cooked in cream with Gruyere cheese on top. My next attempt for the Friday’s With Dorie virtual cooking club. I liked them. I was worried about the cream to potato ratio – it was supposed to be 2 to 2 1/4 lbs. spuds [...]
Last night for dinner I made two dishes: one I’d been wanting to try, and one that I had made before. It turned out to be a kind of low art vs. high art, or I guess that’s cuisine, showdown. The recipe that I had tried before is Mama Lo’s Broccoli Casserole, collected by Jane [...]
Panzanella – the bread soaks up the tomato’s juices and tastes like distilled summer. And we had possibly the best trifle ever, with cherries, apricots and yellow and ginger cakes, for dessert. Recipe following. Trifle recipe.
On Friday, I served up the second in the summer supper series. The theme was roasted vegetables. I roasted summer squash, peppers, and cherry tomatoes (adding, to the tomatoes, lots of garlic, and crumbled oregano dried from a bunch of fresh that came in my CSA box in May or June) and put them on [...]
We had our first 90-degree day of the summer today. I made brunch for a big crowd – 21 full size humans plus 8 or 9 little kids ranging in age from about 2 weeks to 10 years. It was one of my picture-less ones, but a nice menu: Jazzed up potatoes – Mexican fried [...]
Nice post from Dorrie Greenspan the other day about saving the ends of mustard jars to go into vinaigrette. I do that too, rinse out the mustard jar with the vinegar to go into the dressing. Ends of mustards also go into baked beans and the dressing for my brother’s roasted potato salad, which it’s [...]
I get tweets from Heidi Swanson when she posts a new recipe at 101 Cookbooks. I got this one Tuesday evening while I was at the Willy Street Co-op for a Board of Director’s meeting, so I could easily pick up a box of tofu – and I had some cold cooked asparagus, and a [...]
On Saturday night we took a break from conferencing/touristing and went over to Cambridge to see a Madison ex-pat who’s come home to Boston to live with her aging mom. We started wandering around Harvard Square and ended up at a place called Harvest, that our local guide described as really good food but kind [...]
