Another dish for the Dorie Greenspan cooking club, French Fridays with Dorie, Roast chicken for Les Paresseux, the lazy people, of which I guess I am one, since this is pretty much the way I always make roast chicken. Stuff something in the cavity, herbs, garlic, a lemon, salt & pepper, and leave it alone […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
Tonight, I made two recipes from Martha. For dinner was this creamed spinach (actually mustard greens & kale, because that’s what I had) & chicken casserole with croutons on top: For Mark to take to a potluck party tomorrow, I made these snack bars; popcorn and broken pretzels glued together with caramel – and only […]
It’s getting cooler in WI; somehow, I’m not quite ready to commit to saying it’s fall, even though I wore gloves yesterday when I was biking in. The fall produce is showing up at the market, and my brother says I should submit to this NYT potluck recipes contest. It’s hard for me to say […]
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.
So I had this idea to do a series of summer dinners, featuring “the fleeting tastes of summer”. The first one was last night. It was quite pleasant – a congenial group – one of my “girls” – a young woman who lived at the co-op dorm where I was the head cook from 1981-1986, […]