I’ll start at the end of the story: It was delicious. I regret nothing. But perhaps I should start at the beginning? It was a dark and stormy night (ok, it was just dark and night, no storms to be seen) and I was cooking up a storm in my cozy kitchen. Minestrone soup was bubbling on…
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Dinner Roll Odyssey: Soft & Tender Dinner Rolls
Finally my long-awaited post is here! I’ve been promising Part II of my latest Food Odyssey (Dinner Roll Odyssey) for a while now, and at last the time has arrived! I love bread and I love buns and homemade bread is the best there is, I think. I like knowing that there are no preservatives or unwanted…
Salads I Have Known and Loved: Three-Bean Salad & What I Ate for Lunch
When I was a child, fast food chains often sold a three-bean salad alongside their deep-fried meat products. One could buy little containers of three-bean salad alongside one’s chicken thighs, most likely to assuage nutrition guilt (“I’ll take a bucket of deep-fried chicken, annnnnd a two-bite container of bean salad. That’s a balanced meal, right?”)….
Apple Pielettes & Other Domestic Stories
I came home today after work and started making the latest recipe for my online-bake-a-long group: the Apple Pielettes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi. I decided that I wasn’t going to use the apricots, because I didn’t want to go to make a special shopping trip to buy them, and I switched out the…
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf, Domesticity, & Why I Freeze My Zucchini
I’ve been planning to make a post about pumpkin pie, as a way to use up the canned pumpkin that I previously posted about, but I couldn’t resist the call of the frozen zucchini in my freezer. So naturally I had to make a chocolate chip zucchini loaf! Why do I have frozen zucchini in…