It was worse than a dark and story night. It was a summer day that felt like fall, the kind of day that made you want to slaughter and devour pumpkins, preferably while quaffing cider. Then, at the wrong place and the wrong time entered a zucchini. A monster of a zucchini. There was no… Continue reading Battle Zucchini
Category: cooking
Week off
Ironically, I cooked less on my week off from work that I normally do. So I found myself on Saturday with the urge to go at it in the kitchen. Armed with that same issue of Bon Appetit magazine, I made Warm Escarole Salad with Goat Cheese, Hard-Boiled Eggs, and Bacon. To go with it,… Continue reading Week off
Bon Appetit magazine, September 09
Bon Appetit magazine is one of the magazines that I pay newsstand prices for even though I pretty much know that as soon as I see the new photogenic cover dish that I’m g oing to be forking over the $4.50 plus sales tax. I really do need to subscribe. The September BA though… Continue reading Bon Appetit magazine, September 09
Kale Slaw with Peanut Dressing
If someone looked me in the eye and accused me of being a magazine addict, I would have no defense. I would have to break eye contact and slink away. There is no denying this. I make excuses, but I do not deny. The major excuses is that I use the magazines. Case in point,… Continue reading Kale Slaw with Peanut Dressing
Cornbread
Again, this is a part of the BBA challenge. I have to admit that I did not follow this recipe exactly as written. It was another one of those projectes started too late in the evening. So, the cornmeal soaker soaked a lot longer than required. Also, I reduced the bacon. The recipe called for… Continue reading Cornbread
Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread
The BBA Challenge is back with the Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread. Can I just say that I didn’t think that I would be able to coerce 1.5 cups of raisins into this bread. But, I have had a pretty good success rate with Reinhart’s breads (well, with the exception of the ciabatta), so I just… Continue reading Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread
Plum cake
As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this… Continue reading Plum cake
Ciabatta=fail, Cinnamon rolls=pass
I don’t know what happened with my ciabatta, but something just wasn’t right. It looked promising, but like a marriage ending in divorce, something went wrong. I don’t know what, but something was wrong, very wrong. This made the matter of cinnamon rolls that much more important. I find baking more challenging in the warm… Continue reading Ciabatta=fail, Cinnamon rolls=pass
Challah
I don’t think I’d ever eaten challah before, but I made it! This turned out to be a beautiful loaf of bread that left the nighttime kitchen fragrant and made me want to sit in front of the oven with my black notebook and write some poems about it. But I didn’t. By the time… Continue reading Challah
Brioche
BBA Challenge strikes again. This time, the bread is brioche. This sounds incredibly dense, but it didn’t occur to me until I came across the blog French Laundry at Home that what I am doing is cooking, or in this case baking, my way from beginning to end of a cookbook. I am glad that… Continue reading Brioche