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Category Archives: food & cooking
Gooseberry Jam
She Who Must Be Obeyed came home from work on Friday with a huge bag full of gooseberries. Not just any gooseberries, but gooseberries from her boss’s gooseberry bushes. Gooseberries that could not be politely refused, as one does with … Continue reading
The Meat Experiment
It’s easy to eat locally grown vegetables when you can just walk a few blocks every weekend and pick what you want from a large variety of stands. It’s harder to eat locally grown meat, because there are fewer vendors … Continue reading
Market Downturn
I still have so many uncooked veggies from last week’s extravaganza that I exerted remarkable self-control this week, buying only essentials (and a few extravagances). Caraway rye, some flowers for She Who Must Be Obeyed, chocolate banana bread, raspberries, cherry … Continue reading
Simple Summer Salads
Mark Bittman’s at it again, this time offering up a list of 101 salads for the summer. At least one of these recipes will fulfill the dual requirements of what’s in the fridge/pantry and summertime dinner laziness. In theory, each … Continue reading
A Season in Hell
I‘m not talking about Rimbaud, I’m talking about Gordon Ramsay. He’s back, and he’s just as mean as ever. Here’s a preview of the sixth season of Hell’s Kitchen, starting tonight: As always, the season will start with each contestant … Continue reading
A Better Breakfast Faster?
When She Who Must Be Obeyed stumbled downstairs yesterday morning, she was greeted by He Who Will Not Be Ignored: He remembered the Batter Blaster can in the fridge, which I had purchased a few weeks earlier. Time to make … Continue reading
Summer Berry Mille Feuille with Lemon Curd
Nothing will make you feel better about your cooking failures than watching chef Gordon Ramsay excoriate a hapless member of his kitchen brigade. So when my second attempt at a berry dessert crashed and burned, I watched an episode from … Continue reading
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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