So after a week of spring break, capped off by Passover and Easter, here’s what I’ve got in the house: Not to mention three banana muffins I made for Sunday breakfast, trying out a recipe from my new Sarabeth Baking book; a vegetable drawer full of greens – spinach that I already washed, 2/3 a […]
It’s good Friday and the first night of Passover. The last time I remember this coincidence, I was living in Chicago, and it was also a full moon and Friday the 13th, in 1992. That was the year of the underground flood. Thank God we didn’t have so many coincidences this year – who knows […]
A new form of dieting? Over the weekend, I kept thinking about what if I tried to photograph everything I eat, before I eat it. I started today. This is the multi-grain cereal I just had for breakfast at work – Heidi’s recipe, but I didn’t soak it over nigh this time, and I only […]
Since Thursday’s dinner, as usual, I’ve been using up leftovers for meals en famille. We are hosting an AFS student from the Netherlands this semester, and she arrived on Friday night. We ate the Spanish country soup that Mark made last weekend (for the Downton Abbey 2-hour season premiere), along with leftover borscht and cheese […]
…or, I tried. I had big ideas about using up lots of odds & ends from the fridge, in various dishes – but I still ended up throwing food away – UN-characteristically, at least I hope. I made the last of the caramelized onions from the galettes into onion dip with creme frâiche and sour […]
Tonight for dinner I made vegetable croquettes, little fried patties that used up that stalk of broccoli that’s been in the veg bin for probably three weeks, the dab of mashed taters left from Thursday or Friday last week, the dab of pumpkin purée left from Sunday’s sticky pudding, and the last few leaves of […]
I had a nice birthday party for School Woods on Friday. I’ve been serving meals there for 5 years. It was an after work cocktail party, stand-up, nibbles and sips. I made: Crostini with goat cheese, slow-roasted tomato, & pickled onion – homemade baguettes, and I used Heidi’s technique of pouring the oil (or butter) […]
We have an AFS student this school year, a 17-year Italian girl. As I’ve alluded to in past posts, she’s a bit like me at 17 – persnickety about food, because she wants to control what she’s putting in her mouth. Like Mark, she’s not a hearty eater to gobble up whatever I cook. (It’s […]
Pesto-ify I made three kinds of pesto today: sun-dried tomato (no basil or cheese – the tomatoes, garlic, olives, fresh rosemary, almonds, olive oil); basil with pistachio nuts and the usual stuff – Parmesan, olive oil, garlic, and unusual – little bit of lemon zest; and basil with pine nuts, Parmesan, olive oil, garlic. There’s […]
Last weekend I was in San Diego for the grocery co-op conference. I got back, and now we’re leaving again for the librarians’ conference in New Orleans. Yesterday I took in Rach’s orphan produce ‘cuz she’s traveling a lot too – we had a smoothie made from her strawberries & a banana for breakfast this […]