This afternoon I made leek tart, basically Molly Wizenberg’s recipe, but with a few of my own tweaks. Here’s the recipe, below the picture: Crust: I used my 2nd attempt at the Chez Pim rubbed & folded “one crust to rule them all, (I screwed it up my first try) but it’s a good recipe. […]
Grey & rainy for our 2 hour layover in Detroit. I’m on 1st shift watching bags while Mark & Ethan cruise around. I get to go next. I want a beer and the Sunday NYT – I left my paid-for copy on the kitchen counter instead of getting it into my bag to bring along. […]
Today I took a furlough day, to save money for the great state of WI. I am supposed to take 8 this year; 4 assigned and 4 of my own choosing. Today makes 6, and we have two assigned days coming up in April & May, so I’m done. I have a brunch on Sunday, […]
Tonight I made some little turkey meatballs that had almost as much matzoh meal in them as turkey, and cooked them in soup. The soup was good, but the meatballs had the most perfect texture, slightly grainy, soft but not too soft, chewey but not too chewey. And I didn’t think they’d be too photogenic, […]
Tonight is the second one-dish dinner. The menu is chili mac, vegetarian moussaka, coleslaw, two kinds of corn bread – plain and Marion Cunningham’s custard-filled – and ice cream with butterscotch & chocolate sauce. I was going to make raspberry sauce too, but I got tired, so instead I am taking along a jar of […]
So all the weather guys are talking about how the whole world’s in the deep freeze – even Letterman just made a joke about how they should let Rush Limbaugh out of the hospital because we could use the hot air. I made fried rice for dinner – looks like I posted my recipe a […]
I ended up with a lot of plain, whole milk yogurt, and sour cream. I also had streusel, that was leftover from the raspberry danishes yesterday and a little of the raspberry filling. This morning I made a coffee cake, kind of like one in the book Baked, but half the size.Sour Cream Coffee Cake […]