Friday, February 15, 2013
On yesterday’s Valentine’s Day, I kept wondering to myself: should I write about chocolate or running? Chocolate is the obvious choice, to be true to the sentiments of the day. And it just so happens that I have a glorious chocolate cake filled with mocha buttercream, iced with chocolate genoise, and drizzled with white chocolate I’ve been meaning to tell…
Monday, February 11, 2013
spice: a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food. (source: Wikipedia) The subject of seasonings recently came up when a friend asked me about my selection of spices. I showed her everything I had, and she was very impressed. It’s such a great question that I thought it worthy of its own blog post. Perfect timing, too, as it’s high time I got back…
Sunday, February 10, 2013
A Manhattan Muffin Comes to Boston Does the combination of blueberries and corn sound weird to you? It did to me the first time I stumbled across one in Manhattan. I used to live in New York on 65th St at Lincoln Center and there was this tiny hole-in-the-wall bakery up the street that sold them. The first time I…
Saturday, February 9, 2013
I love corn, in all its forms. From corn-on-the-cob to tortilla soup to a spicy corn and kale sauté and everything in between. Not to mention creamy polenta, which is fabulous with seared tuna puttanesca. The list goes on. Not surprisingly, I also adore the sweeter side of corn, like corn pudding, cornbread, and corn muffins. These are foods I eat quite…
Friday, February 8, 2013
Though I hadn’t been planning on it, all of the food media and then my own post ruminating on Super Bowl favorites finally got to me, and I simply had to make chili this past weekend. I took it up a notch with homemade cornbread, too, which I haven’t made in about five years. Ah, the power of suggestion, eh? Goodness knows…
Saturday, February 2, 2013
I’m sure I’m not the only one scratching their heads, saying “Where did January go? Wasn’t it just Christmas? How is it possibly the Super Bowl tomorrow?” Or perhaps it’s just me. In my world, I enter a state of holiday purgatory in early January and the new year begins somewhere around the middle of the month. Now it’s now, and I’m…
Monday, January 21, 2013
Okay, it’s time to not have the home page of my blog be Christmas cookies, for goodness’ sake. I’ve been MIA, I know. First I was in New York for the holidays with my family and then I was on vacation in Puerto Rico with my husband, about which I’ve yet to post (Caribbean bouillabaisse and mojitos, anyone?). For more…
Monday, December 31, 2012
Any Christmas baker is appreciative of a one-stop-shopping cookie dough: make one base and switch a few ingredients here and there and—voilà!—you’ve got a whole new variety for minimal extra effort. Such was the thinking that led me to this cookie, which took the base from my orange-scented pistachio and cranberry butter cookies and swapped in lemon zest, almonds, and…
Monday, December 31, 2012
Christmas may be technically over, but no doubt you, too, are still munching on some holiday goodies. I pared down my usual cookie repertoire this year, as my mom does most of the baking these days, but I made a few different kinds that I’d love to share with you. (You already have the recipe for my triple chocolate biscotti…
Sunday, December 30, 2012
My feelings about eating a big salad for dinner are news to no one at this point. But it always pleases me when a “kitchen sink” salad—meaning, a salad that includes various things I have hanging around but wouldn’t necessarily have planned to include together—turns out to be particularly tasty and oh-so-pretty. Such was the case on Boxing Day, the day…
