Around two o’clock yesterday afternoon, I realized that we were out of bread. If you’ve been reading this blog since its start, you are aware that I am charged with making a yeast bread per week. Last week’s effort was a disaster, so I was filled with trepidation at fulfilling my yeast bread obligation for… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
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
Gimme my affogato!
I really do love fall – at least the flavors – and, today, the weather. It’s a balmy sixty degrees or so, and perfect weather for ice cream. Well, actually, any day is a perfect day for ice cream, and in fall, why not have ice cream that utilizes some of those traditional autumn tastes?… Continue Reading
Good for the soul. Good for colds.
That “good for colds” thing may just be an old wives’ tale, but it seemed to work out for JR last night. I have only a minute, but wanted to share with you the recipe for the cold-slaying (well, we hope cold-slaying after today, anyway) chicken soup. Chicken Soup with pasta – made with homemade… 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