As you may know – or then, as you may not know – I have been trying to exorcise my apple-cinnamon demons by repeatedly making apple-cinnamon desserts. My theory is this: I will either become exhausted of eating the ethereal combination of apples and cinnamon (did I say “ethereal“?), or I am meant to be… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Cooking on a Budget
Not My Nana’s Red Sauce and Jan’s Meatballs
My grandmother owned a red sauce Italian restaurant when I was growing up. I don’t mean the chain restaurant here in Massachusetts, Red Sauce, I mean a good, old fashioned Italian-American restaurant with those rough translations from southern Italian cuisine to the mid-twentieth century American idea of Italian food. And I loved it. To judge… Continue Reading
An Untraditional Bolognese Sauce
Today is the last day for my garden. It’s going to be 28 degrees here overnight, and 20 degrees overnight on Wednesday, so this afternoon, I marched out to what’s left of the garden with scissors in hand and harvested the remainder of the lettuce – which yielded me an entire plastic shopping bag of… Continue Reading
Flour here. Flour there. Flour everywhere.
I have flour in my flip flops. If I were a professional chef, I wouldn’t be wearing beach attire in the kitchen (really, it’s only the flip flops. The rest of me is in regular street clothing, I swear.), but I like to cling onto the summer footwear for as long as possible into the… Continue Reading
Pears and The Pyramid
Pears bruise so easily. They entice me into buying them with their pretty colors – jewel tone reds, soft new-grass greens, mottled sunset pink – and then, within a day of having them in my house, they look like they’ve been in a barroom brawl, all bruised skin and mushy flesh. So disappointing. But, it… Continue Reading