Today I put the yellow eye beans in a casserole with corn salsa and chicken and corn tortillas and cheese. Tomorrow I am going to cook them with kale and olive oil and garlic. I think that’s sleek (kale with black-eyed peas and bulghur), that we used to eat at Mideastern restaurants in Pittsburgh. […]
Summer food, mostly. Rach has been here since Monday. I’m trying to remember Monday night … It was freezing at the beginning of the week. Usually I wash my hair and in the summer, shave my legs, on Sundays, but I didn’t get around to until till Tuesday this week – it didn’t matter, because […]
This morning I tried a recipe for carrot jam, from the most recent Food & Wine Magazine. I had macerated the carrots over night with sugar and lemon juice and cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. I started cooking the whole mess while I was doing laundry. The recipe said 40 minutes, or til the carrots […]
OK, so, during cookie season, the enamel coating on the flat beater for my 25-year-old stand mixer started to flake off. In other words the beater I use all the time. In late December I started my quest to replace it. First, I tried to order a replacement beater from Chef’s Catalog – but I […]