… if I didn’t do School Woods, or my other cooking outlets. All last week, and this weekend, I executed various cooking plans, many without sufficient eaters to consume the end results, and one notable flop. Last Monday, I made green bean salad and broccoli casserole. The salad got eaten up, alright, but I never […]
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, […]
We are on day four of a set of perfect September 11th-type weather in WI – 30s and 40s at night, 70s in the day time, blue sky, clear and sunny. So I walked over to the student Union to get coffee and eat my liverwurst on homemade challah, on the terrace by the lake, […]
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 […]
The idea was French toast & sausage and some kind of potatoes. I was going to make a kale and potato gratin, from Deborah Madison’s Savory Way, but I got lots of good poblanos at the farmers market Saturday, so I made potato poblano gratin instead (which I have served for brunch before). The recipe’s […]
Last Saturday at the Farmers’ Market, I bought half a chicken from Matt Smith. He grows big fat birds, so a half chicken was probably at least 3 pounds, a.k.a. as big as a whole grocery store chicken, a fryer anyways. I roasted it, while I was at work, on time bake in the oven, […]
When the weather gets cooler, like it did here last week, I often forget to drink enough. By Thursday, I was pretty miserable, feeling blocked up and bloaty, so as a pre-dinner snack, I ate a couple of prunes, or dried plums as they are labelled now. Then I made a bowl full of Bubbe […]