Dried Morels Day 3 - up to 30 on my challenge to get to 90 new recipes to try in the first months of 2013: So many savory recipes are enhanced by the magic of mushrooms - described on Wikipedia as the fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus - not quite evoking positive notes with that - but so worth disregarding as you peruse the market for the melange of fresh and dried offerings...... I am not educated in the foraging … [Read more...]
A Wide Array – The Versatility of Chicken: Round 2 Recipes
You could spend all day perusing different recipes, just for Roast Chicken, right? There are a million out there. Then there is the even broader spectrum of chicken recipes. Ryan and I had a discussion about this yesterday in an effort to pinpoint what was for dinner. We agreed that we're a little bored with the Chicken/tomato combination right now. As chicken is such an incredibly versatile main ingredient, I went looking to illustrate … [Read more...]
List of 90 Recipes: A Fiscal Cliff Challenge – Don’t Push it Down the Road
Well, I don't know about you, but I found watching tv over the last few days while Congress tried to come to grips with the Fiscal Cliff a painful experience - mostly, I turned it off. I won't go any farther in this post with my feelings about this debacle. But, as I sat down this morning and pondered the fact that I had challenged myself to come up with 90 recipes to try to keep myself occupied until March or so, I got to feeling a little … [Read more...]
The Meaning of “Resolution”, An Eating Idiom for me for 2013 and my #1 All-Time Favorite, Guilt-Free Dessert
My # 1 All-Time Favorite, Guilt-Free Dessert - Ina Garten's Roasted Pear and Applesauce - sans the brown sugar Let's see, someone important said, "the last shall be first", so I will start off today with the last item on my title---- ROASTED PEAR AND APPLESAUCE - Adapted from Ina Garten 3 pounds ripe but firm bosc pears 3 pounds macoun apples 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp freshly ground nutmeg the juice and zest of two navel … [Read more...]
Challenge: Ten Things to do on a Cold Winter Day (for Winter-Curmudgeons) and Yesterday’s News
Sunrise this morning There is no secret that this is not my favorite time of year. But, rather than get back in bed and pull the covers over my head until the first of May, I decided to challenge myself this morning and see if I could come up with 10 great things for me to do on a cold, Winter day. This is not a list for people who love Winter, cold weather, skiing, snowboarding, skating, cold feet and hands and aching jaws and heads … [Read more...]
Perils of the Internet – Danger: Potential Hoarder Lives Here
"Things" have changed so dramatically in my lifetime - that is the last 58 years. Yes, I am old enough to remember the first televisions - those big, heavy, boxy things with rabbit ears attached. (I have this comical notion - an image of colonial times as the precursor to life, pre-tv - people cooking in open hearths in their long dresses - I don't know what people did before tv! -like it was the times of Little Women or something - so sorry, … [Read more...]
Seasonal Intrigue – Blood Oranges, Meyer Lemons, Key Limes and More
I fell in love with this picture a few weeks ago. It was posted by Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, CA, a place I have happily visited, spent several mornings and evenings peering in the windows and oogling their croissants on sky-high proofing racks. (I also visited when they were open I am most happy to say, but I confess to having a peculiar love of oogling through bakery windows). This photo made me feel nostalgic, a feeling that Thomas … [Read more...]
A Day of Re-orientation and the In-House Food Critic
Christmas Centerpiece - moved to the kitchen where I can really enjoy it! I don't know about you, but the day after Christmas always brings with it a strange feeling for me. There is a mixture of the sense of a letdown and relief. All of the hoopla is over, the house is a mass of piles of pots and pans and empty boxes. I don't know, I actually feel a little bit forlorn. For too many years I have searched for the perfect feeling from … [Read more...]
Stimulus and Response – Showing Love through Food; Recipe for Wild Mushroom, Shoyu and Goat Cheese Truffles
Food and Memory - a combination that is so prominent at this time of year, right? We all crave food items from our childhoods - those which evoke special memories - both culinary memories and those involving the other senses - evoking memory "photos" of sitting at the dining table in special and happy moments, which were somehow frozen there and hard-wired forever. Years ago in school we all learned about stimulus and response, in Sociology, … [Read more...]
Celebrating the Winter Solstice – Turning Point
A couple of weeks ago, Martha Stewart posted a question on Facebook, "What is your favorite thing about December?" My answer? "December 21 - days start getting longer." Probably not the popular answer - like Christmas, snow, skiing, ice skating at Rockefeller Center, wearing your fur coat, coats, boots, gloves, scarves......(ugh, ugh, ugh... etc., etc). Everyone considers today the beginning of Winter, a day I would have to say I dread … [Read more...]
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