As most of you already know, every two weeks, my online bake-a-long group makes another recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking Chez Moi. And most of you also know that when I’m cooking, I tend to substitute ingredients like crazy, and the recipes almost always turn out. There’s a reason that I call myself the…
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Not Your Mother’s Tapioca: Coconut Tapioca with Caramelized Bananas, and Truth in Old Adages
Dear readers, prepare yourself for a shocking truth: I have never tasted tapioca. Not so shocking, you say? Maybe you’re right. But I love to try new things, and tapioca isn’t exactly post-modern molecular gastronomy, so I think it’s kind of surprising that I’ve never tasted it. I associate tapioca with school lunches and books. A…
Memories of Meals Past: Greek-Style Pulled Pork with Tzatziki Sauce over Greens
Today is #tbt Thursday, and for once I am not writing this in the evening, as I’m at home with a nasty sore-throat-turned-cold-turned-G.I.upset. Aside from that bit of TMI, I do have a lovely recipe recommendation for my memories of meals past feature! But first, a story. The DH and I are still relative newlyweds…
“What do you mean, there’s no more flour?” And other kitchen disasters.
If you follow my blog, you know that I’m part of a bake-a-long group, called Tuesdays with Dorie, and that we’re baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, entitled Baking Chez Moi. We bake a new dish twice a month, and this week’s recipe is Brown Butter and Vanilla Weekend Loaf. In France, apparently,…
Triple Almond Sugar Cookies and Why I Heart My Husband
I was super-sick on Monday, with a vaso-vagal reaction to an IBS attack, and the DH had to leave his work to pick me up from my work, as I was too ill to get home under my own steam. Then he tucked me up in bed with cold washcloths, warm blankets, weak tea and…