So, (I just heard a piece on NPR, where their grammarian said listeners hate it when interviewers start a sentence with “so” – but this isn’t NPR) I had huge piles of work to-dos for the weekend; not sure I made it through enough of them, but I tried. In between work stuff, cookie season […]
Or, to put it more politely, the earnest, home cook, social media recipe commenters. Today for brunch I made this corn and tomato pie, by way of Gourmet, by way of Laurie Colwin & James Beard. It’s supposed to look like this: Or this: But mine looked like this: Right – soupy. What a bring […]
…into a little ball, and close my eyes. Preferably with cats, and snuggly blankets. Today was one of those days. It was uneventful, for me anyways. Mark had to get up at oh my god in the morning and drive to the train into Chicago for a job interview. But I got to stay in […]
Rach and I have been talking about macaroons on our walks – among other things. She is craving to try to make the real, classic French, actually Parisian, macaroons – silky little pillows in lots of flavors, with fillings. David Lebovitz has a lengthy post and recipe about the difference between Parisian macaroons and other […]
Yesterday was kind of a long day – in to work in time for a 9:00 a.m. meeting with a visiting library school professor, who has written an ebook text book that I think my school will adopt. Then a brown bag talk (recording, 1:09) with another visiting library school professor, this one a good […]
Time is especially funny this time of year. Two weeks ago Christmas was barely over – and it was still 2012. Barely a month ago – Dec. 14 – it was the day before the cookie party, and my life was quite different. Rather than slaving over a hot computer, trying to compose meaningful exercises […]
Was a large scale mess. I tried to make eggs Benedict with real Hollandaise – I used to make a batch of Hollandaise with 36 eggs and 6 pounds of butter on Sunday mornings at 6:00 a.m. when I opened for brunch at Ovens East – but the memory of doing that was not helpful […]
I was in an all-chocolate mode – chocolate spritz and world peace, but somehow it just wasn’t a good night. I didn’t feel so good, and got a bit of late start because I went out Waisman’s to pick up our pork. David & Molly & their kids raised two pigs, Mazel and Tov, and […]
I got up early today to make the dough for the spoon cookies, and decided to multiply the recipe X 5, instead of 4, in the hope of getting a few more of these little charmers. This meant 10 sticks (2 1/2 pounds) of butter, and I was getting mixed up as to whether my […]
I seem to have a tradition, at this point in cookie season – or actually on Nov. 30th, which is sometimes earlier and sometimes later in cookie season – of writing a post with “wimpy” in the title. See 2011 and 2010. In 2009, I didn’t post on Nov. 30th, although on Dec. 1 I […]