Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce + Maple Syrup = Breakfast!
Have I mentioned that I married a freak? That’s right: My husband, who’ll eat approximately one blazillion more out-there foods than I will (seriously, he’ll eat just about anything, while I get fairly squeamish about texture and, y’know, yuckiness), hates cooked fruit. Sometimes I forget this. Sometimes, say, it’s the afternoon before our itty-bitty Just ...Keep Reading
Roast Your Chicken Bones for Richer Stock
Look how deliciously, deeply brown it is! Chilling your stock makes it easy to remove the excess fat, which congeals on top. Sometimes I make mistakes. And sometimes that turns out to be a good thing. The other day, I pulled some chicken parts out of my overstuffed freezer and set them in the fridge ...Keep Reading
Holy Crap, I LOVE My CSA! (Pink Asian Noodle Soup)
Tonight’s haul from Local Roots NYC: A large bunch of unbelievably beautiful red amaranth (aka Chinese spinach) A large bunch of curly kale Enough green radicchio for several salads A bouquet of purple basil so pretty I want to walk down the aisle carrying it Golf-ball-sized radishes, perfect for these outrageous-looking Cinnamon Sugar Radish Chips ...Keep Reading
Sigh.
Last night provided the big rain storm we’d been hoping for, to test our fix-it man’s assertion that the ridonculous number of leaks in our kitchen had been fully sealed. Yeah, not so much. It started out promisingly enough, with no leakage all throughout the day. But that was just garden-variety rain. Once the deluge ...Keep Reading
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Leak
My currently-inaccessible cookbook collection The wall on which my cookbook collection was nearly drowned. Water was running down the wall and spraying from the ceiling light fixture. I could’ve taken a shower under it, had I wanted to bathe in rusty brown liquid The kitchen table, buried under flotsam & jetsam moved from other leaky ...Keep Reading
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