So last night I think I ate too much – and this morning my stomach let me know. I was just being a teensy bit greedy – and trying to eat up leftovers. I had a grilled cheese & tomato sandwich that was on the large side – the packaged ww bread where the slices […]
In the most recent Bob Apetit, in her Cooking Life column, Molly Wizenberg was talking about how great it is (can be) to put recipes together and come up with your own. Her melding was Cafe Lago meatballs sauced with Marcella Hazan’s tomato-butter-onion sauce. I made this tomato tart today, that was a combo of […]
I have this taste memory of some kind of prune bar that my Grandma Mollie made. We didn’t like much of her cooking, it was too different from what our mom fed us, but I loved her cheese blintzes and these bars. They were square bars that she stored in a tin, and in my […]
… And write – and here I am again a once a week blogger. There’re a lot of things I could blame it on, but I’d rather not. Last weekend I sent my foster daughter off to camp, so Saturday we went to Old Navy, and got her packed. I made some beef and peapods […]
The irony of it was that it was the “everything wrapped” brunch in honor of Christo & Jeanne Claude’s June 13th birthday. Sausage rolls – sausages wrapped in dough; asparagus in filo; mushrooms wrapped in parchment and baked; eggs & spinach rolled around cheese; and strawberry spiral pie – slices from a roll of biscuit […]
My mom used to say that the heat of summer made her exhausted. I think that’s how I’m feeling today. Except it’s been going on for longer than just today. I’m not feeling too creative, and I think the posts show it. My stuff to cook list is not all that deep right now – […]
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 […]
So I wasn’t getting any reserves for the brunch the morning after prom, and then finally at the last second, I got one group of 8, and another of 4 adults & two kids – so a good, right-size crowd. Not so big that I had to panic getting everything ready in the slight disarray […]
I got a Mario Batali Chianti Red Panini Press on sale from Sur la Table. It’s been sitting on the sideboard, because I don’t have any place to store it, but I finally tried it out Sunday night – it makes a damn good sandwich. I had a couple of rye cocktail breads with Jarlsberg, […]