Like I wrote to my brother last night, it’s so familiar and so strange to be here. The hotel where I’m staying for the conference I must’ve gone past a million times as a kid – it’s one of the first things you see when you drive into downtown Pittsburgh from the airport – but […]
Somehow, the last time I posted was a whole week ago, and I’m not sure why that is. In between then and now, we went to the premier concert of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and tried out a new-to-Madison restaurant (#21 of a Chicago area chain). Nothing that we ate there – a pasta bolognase, […]
The recipe for this soup (from the Splendid Table’s emailed newsletter) says to top the soup, which already has chiles, tomatoes, chicken broth and the squash in it, with chopped jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, and lime. Their description: A nice twist on the perennial autumn Butternut squash soup, there’s a jockeying of tart, savory, hot and […]
… 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 […]