Yesterday morning, when I opened up the closed-off and & closed-heat-vent sun room, where I had left the naked ginger creams so that the cats wouldn’t try to steal them, the smell of gingerbread made all the late night baking worthwhile. mmm, like the ghosts of Christmas past. I made a lot of the ginger […]
So it’s been a funny couple of days of cooking. My first winter share CSA box was arriving on Thursday, so I was trying to use up as much as possible from prior boxes. I’ve been trying more dishes for French Fridays with Dorie. I had the fixings for a lovely salad: roasted beets, roasted […]
Last night for supper I made Dorie Greenspan’s pommes dauphinois – potatoes cooked in cream with Gruyere cheese on top. My next attempt for the Friday’s With Dorie virtual cooking club. I liked them. I was worried about the cream to potato ratio – it was supposed to be 2 to 2 1/4 lbs. spuds […]
I joined a virtual cooking club for Dorrie Greenspan’s Around my French Table – French Fridays with Dorrie. The recipe for this week – October 29 – was Marie-Helene’s apple cake. I made two of them for a Saturday morning brunch, for a 30th wedding anniversary. My cakes were a little too thin, because I […]
It’s been all about using up whatever’s in the fridge, since I got back from Pittsburgh on Sunday. On Sunday, I made a pasta with roasted vegetables, and a plum tart – used up that pack of RP’s pumpkin tortellini, and the leftover salad greens from School Woods birthday, and the bulb part of 2 […]
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, […]
… 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 […]
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 […]
On Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, we grilled. John got ahold of my $250 fixed lens, and stuck it on his $3000 Canon digital camera body, and documented the process. View full album> Memorial Day Weekend I made old favorites but with a few differences. Like the honey baked beans, that I usually make […]
This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago. And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like […]