My baking turned into the slightly obsessive zone with crackers. I’m not exaggerating even a little. I love making crackers. I have made crackers almost every day for the past couple of weeks. I love making them partly for the ease and speed with which a batch of baked deliciousness can be whipped up. It’s [...]
Archive for the ‘good things to eat & drink’ Category
slightly obsessive baking pt. 2: crackers
Posted in good things to eat & drink, tagged baking, blue ginger crackers, crackers, sesame crackers, wheat thins on May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
slightly obsessive baking pt 1: variations on cinnamon bread
Posted in good things to eat & drink, tagged baking, bread baking, chocolate swirl bread, cinnamon bread, cinnamon raisin bread on April 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook has been kicking around our kitchen for some time now. It’s one of those cookbooks whose pages are splattered and creased. The kind of cookbook where you can open automatically to the recipe you want because the pages are so used to falling open just so. A cookbook [...]
best taboulleh
Posted in good things to eat & drink, tagged bok choy, bulgur, mint, salads, summer cooking, summer salads, taboulleh on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This was the best little salad to come through my kitchen as of late (and with all of the greens abounding out there, there sure have been a lot of salads). It’s a nice creative take on taboulleh. Yum. It happened the way so many good recipes happen. You take a bunch of random stuff [...]
radish pâté
Posted in good things to eat & drink, herbs and other green bits, tagged carrots, chives, radish pate, radishes, spring, spring food on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My six-year-old has this word delishum. It’s his little hybrid of delicious and yum that he reserves as the highest form of food praise. He’d hardly touch radish pâté with a ten foot pole let alone use the holiest of words to describe it, but this springy mix of fresh chives, carrots and radishes is [...]
a bounty of bread
Posted in good things to eat & drink, tagged bread, bread making, radish butter, recipes on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The pleasures of baking bread from scratch.
herbal vinegars
Posted in good things to eat & drink, herbs and other green bits, things made from the garden, tagged chives, herbal vinegar, herbs, hostess gifts, nasturtiums on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
An abundance of chive blossoms along with snips of sage, thyme and nasturtium petals go into the making of these sunset-colored herbal vinegars
