I was mourning our nice weather, because I had just acquired Crescent Dragonwagon’s Bean By Bean: A Cookbook: More than 175 Recipes for Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans, Even Sweet Beans! and felt like nothing in it was weather appropriate. It is not yet fresh bean season,but it was unseasonably…
Archives for March 2012
Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Slightly Salted
I have been skating around brown sugar pound cakes for a long time now. Staring at recipes, thinking about making them, backing off and choosing a different recipe at the last minute. We have a complicated relationship, me and brown sugar. I love it plain–I steal pinch-fuls every time I bake–but many brown sugar…
Herbed Chicken Casserole with Wild Rice, Red Rice and Cranberries
I am going to skip marveling at the weather–everyone in the continental 48 knows this was one weird winter–and just skip to the part that usually comes sometime in April. We are in our fourth year in this house, and every spring I continue to be amazed and grateful that we are so lucky to…
Salted White Chocolate Brownies with Bittersweet Chocolate Chunks and Macadamia Nuts
Ahh jet lag. Jet lag is why I am sitting and staring at my computer screen, where most of the work has been done for me, pictures are ready, recipe typed, and yet I have nothing to say. Despite finally getting to try a Tartine morning bun (WOW), eating at Aziza (WOW again), and all the…
No Butter Kinda Saag Chicken
Greetings from San Francisco! My wonderful husband gave me a trip, sans children, to see my best friend from high school in Paolo Alto/San Francisco. So far I have had an amazing pandan waffle from a Vietnamese food truck (made with pandanus leaf), a stellar hamburger from Zuni Cafe, chocolate ice cream with smoked sea…
Individual Peanut Butter Mousse Pies–for Mikey–and John, Alex and Sammy
As most of you know, I was gone for a decent chunk of last summer. I tried my best to keep up with blogging–I even became a travel blog for a short while but I did not keep up with the outside world worth a hoot. Major League Baseball passed me by as did the excitement…
“Pork Claypot Rice” Adapted to My Kitchen
I love the internet. If you are interested in culinary anthropology, for lack of a better way to put being interested in exploring other cultures’ cuisines, the internet provides a wealth of information. Sure I can read a book an American traveling in Indonesia has written about Indonesian food–I have those books, I love those…
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Wacky Cake and A Review of Piece of Cake!
Full disclosure: my mom does not make cake from scratch; I did not grow up in a family where cakes were baked, aside from the occasional boxed mix. My maternal grandma did, but my mother never. Even pancakes, waffles and shortcakes are made with Bisquick. Now this is the same woman who, as far as…