A fennel seed-rosemary-garlic rub for last night’s pork roast and the cake that is the subject of this post have confirmed for me that the return to fall cooking has officially begun. If the flavors of each weren’t enough of a statement that it is so, surely the desire to roast and bake, plus make… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
A Quick Kale and Pasta Dinner
I think, sometimes, that I must be prejudiced in my love of this time of year because my birthday falls within it. But it is just so gorgeous, with the wispy white clouds, crisp air, and sky in that perfect shade of blue. While I do miss the heat, and bemoan the fact that we… Continue Reading
Rose hip jelly
Lately, I’ve been scavenging for food. Or so it seems. In an effort to keep our food bill down, I’m being sure to use up everything I can collect or, um, harvest I believe is the more appropriate term, in the garden, and, it is that time of year again when my farmer neighbors’ honor-system… Continue Reading
As Time and Tomatoes Pass By
Last week, I turned thirty-nine. The day before my birthday, I finished uploading the last of the photographs for the Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook to my publisher, Andrews McMeel‘s ftp, and on my birthday, JR and I made our 2009 maiden voyage to the beach, a disturbing and previously unknown late start – and, I… Continue Reading
The Waning Days of Summer Corn
A half dozen or so years ago, right around this time of year, over our forty-second consecutive dinner consisting of corn on the cob and some variety of grilled meat, I felt compelled to let JR know how I felt about the impending ingestion of corn for our forty-third consecutive dinner. “Honey, some people in… Continue Reading