every bite tells a story
Posted in Chicagoland, Let's Cook, My So-Called Life, recipes on Jun 27th, 2009
Moments after finishing my first pot of caramel sauce – first melted sugar, first caramel anything – I pulled up an apron corner, wrapped the burning handle and carried it down twenty-seven steps, past an audience of snickering older students, past my teachers, not breathing until the pot finally reached the hands of a famous [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, My So-Called Life, recipes on Jun 13th, 2009
Somewhere between the food world and today’s would-be plans, I sold a lot of greeting cards. Yes. Greeting cards. When a writer friend suggested I’d “enjoy short form” - code for attention span? - I quickly studied the racks, and eventually sold to major companies. I wrote funny cards, pun cards, happy cards, sad cards, [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Uncategorized, recipes on Jan 21st, 2009
At the coffee shop the other day, Greg was looking for a slice of banana bread, like he always does. I glanced through the tiered pastry baskets - on top, pumpkin bread, zucchini bread. Bottom, sugar cookies.
“No banana.” I checked one more basket, and held something up. “Banana muffin?”
Greg took the muffin. [...]
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Be Crafty, recipes on Jan 9th, 2009
Well hello! Nice to see you. Cold out there, eh? Nope, winter’s not getting me down, no sir. I’ve got apricot rugelach in the oven, a roaring fire, and, oh look - two steamy lattes.
Chocolate sprinkles on that? I thought so.
Comfy now? Good - first, let’s talk about popularity. I raised the [...]
Posted in recipes on Jan 6th, 2009
Here’s the thing: I don’t love Jell-O, and most of America does. I’d bet that even foodie elite, people who’d never be caught with a two-tone wiggler, dig strawberry banana when no one’s looking - I believe it. There are a few distinct groups of Jell-O lovers - 50’s kids who grew up with it, [...]
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