Eat your salad no dessert, get that man you deserve
Someone from Random House has put me on the cookbook publicity list and now these gorgeous cookbooks keep turning up in the mail.…
Showing posts with label Stir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stir. Show all posts
Thomas Keller & Barbara Lynch: earnest summations
I had to go back and search through the blog to ascertain that I'd never actually summed up my experience with Ad Hoc at Home…
Here in Topeka
I don't know what happened here because I've had this post mostly written for almost a week. The other day I had to expla…
Now that's a pretty table
Last night's dinner featured the loveliest recipe I've made out of Stir : a peeled tomato hollowed out and stuffed with …
Dutiful dinner report
Friday night Stir dinner: Chicken soup with caraway gnocchi . You brown chicken, onion, carrot, celery, and various herbs, add …
No one has been hospitalized after 23 hours, so I'm calling it a success
I've stalled out on Barbara Lynch's Stir , a great book that I've been dawdling through for months. I was going to ca…
Just food, for a change
All summer the fog sat on us like a duvet, and then, out of nowhere, comes this crazy heat wave. Last night's dinner was &quo…
The mother of all catch-up posts
Should we forbid this comportment at the dinner table? Should we laugh it off? I never would have worn a box to dinner! I wonder …
Catch-up post #4: apple tart
I've lost the cookbook reviewing thread of this blog in recent months and one of my goals of the autumn is to get back on tra…
Catch-up post #2: My Waterloo
I do understand the challenges of writing a recipe for a dessert as rococo as a napoleon , but on this one Rose Levy Beranbaum ge…
Catch-up post #1: Wednesday night
Dinner 1: My sister, Justine, and her family came over and we made corn dogs. I used a recipe from Staff Meals at Chanterelle th…
It's like they were never gone
My children are home from New England, taller and tanner and worldlier than when we said goodbye on July 2. Isabel has started d…
Even worse food styling than usual
This is how I eat when my family is not around. This is how I drink when my family is not around: not at all. Last night I ope…
Do you think I could stretch it into a novel?
I like to manage expectations. Below you will find an uneventful First World slice-of-life story with no sex, no violence, no di…
Is it just me or is it salty in here?
On Friday, Isabel baked these c hocolate cookies from Barbara Lynch's Stir and they are blockbusters. I don't even lik…
Poulet au pie crust
Wednesday night I wrapped a whole chicken in "bread" dough ( poulet au pain from Stir ), except it wasn't really br…
Alton Brown cookies
I don't know anything about Alton Brown, except that his English muffins let me down and his granola is the most stupidly de…
This and that
This is the olive and ricotta pizza from Stir that I made the other night using leftover brioche pizza dough. You bake a hot, z…
They're laughing and drinking and having a party
One thing I don't miss about Gourmet magazine: the party pictures in which gorgeous people were always smiling, lifting Lali…
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