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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Market Trends
Summer is halfway over, even though the weather has just caught up. At the market that means more variety, so much that I need two photos to show everything I bought today. Above, there’s brioche and ciabatta loaves, sweet cherries, … Continue reading
Another Reason to Hate the Food Network
Sandra Lee and her show Semi-Homemade is the embodiment of everything that has gone wrong with the Food Network. And here, for your viewing pleasure, is a two-minute summary that supports my claim: Could someone tell her it’s not pronounced … Continue reading
Dill Pickles (Slight Return)
“Pickles,” declared the t-shirt I saw last weekend, “are cucumbers soaked in evil.” Given my recent string of kitchen failures, I expected nothing less when I opened the jar of dill pickles I put up almost two weeks ago. When … Continue reading
Individual Fresh Berry Gratins (Slight Return)
I concluded the post about my first attempt to make berry gratins with: I’ll make this again because the recipe didn’t fail me, I failed the recipe. Lesson learned: Don’t fuck with Cook’s Illustrated. Look at the photo: you’d think … Continue reading
Readercon 20
This afternoon I’m heading to Readercon 20, the speculative fiction conference I have been involved with for twenty years. The best explanation of what I’ve been doing there all this time is in this essay I contributed to the Souvenir … Continue reading
Tools of the Trade
I‘m a web designer, but every now and then my print background bleeds through. I’ll find myself telling a client “Let’s push that left margin over two more picas,” or “I think we can indent the paragraphs two ems.” I … Continue reading
Simple Summer PIcnics
Yesterday’s summer recipes post would be incomplete without the followup, “101 20-Minute Dishes for Inspired Picnics,” published a year later. These picnic recipes may be even less complicated than the dinner recipes, but they’re all clever deviations from the usual … Continue reading
Simple Summer Meals
A friend sent me this article from the Times two years ago. It’s Mark Bittman’s “Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less,” a list of tasty, yet idiot-simple meals to make when it’s too hot (or … Continue reading
Dill Pickles
I started making dill pickles a few years ago because I ‘m not fond of what’s usually sold in jars in supermarkets (although in a pinch I’ll settle for Ba-Temp-Te kosher dills). My attempts at canning pickles for long-term storage … Continue reading
Market correction
I‘m running out of titles that use the word “market.” Fewer stands – and customers – today due to the holiday weekend, but there were still good things to be had. Ground beef for burgers, first cucumbers of the season, … Continue reading