Here’s the scene, this past weekend: We’re at my in-laws’ for the postponed Christmas brunch. In bed, around midnight, the night before the gathering. Stephen’s eating ...
It’s Hanukkah, Night Three. All weekend I’d been planning to make a Livornese fried chicken dish from Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food. ...
Did you hear us moaning the other night? Like, moaning-moaning, the sound your body makes involuntarily when experiencing something so good it shakes you to your ...
’Dja ever look in your fridge and find a, well, motley assortment of vegetables? Ones that kinda might go together, but kinda might combine into something ...
Stephen requested a less-saucy version, so I baked this one in a larger dish. Yours will be more substantial-looking, I promise!
I loves me ...
Super-quick post, just to report two things:
1. That no-soak beans method really does work. Made black beans yesterday and they came out perfect.
2. The recipe for Spicy, Citrusy ...
I’d been eyeing this post over at The Paupered Chef for a while—it describes how to cook dried beans quickly (relatively), without soaking. I’m ...
When Harry was born, I was really active on a women’s message board, the outgrowth of an indie wedding-planning board for those of us who’d graduated ...
Did you ever make something so delicious, so transporting, so perfectly satisfying that the memory of eating it lingers for days?
I knew as soon as I ...
She looks so demure, doesn’t she?
It’s often said that the true test of a restaurant kitchen is roast chicken. This is ...