every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Holiday, Lawrence, Let's Eat, recipes on Nov 3rd, 2008
I share a birthday with Marie Antoinette - November 2 - and in my younger years I took this to mean I was destined for cake and royalty, only to eventually learn that it just might mean the chopping block. Early November always puts my birthday somewhere between Halloween and Election Day, and never more [...]
Posted in Tell Simmer, recipes on Oct 28th, 2008
Carole Walter is a master baker who’s written six major cookbooks and taught 25,000 students over 30 dedicated years. She’s known as a “seasoned, creative and accomplished baking and food professional specializing in American and European pies, cakes, cookies, pastries, desserts, and breads.” So…with all that international acclaim, media love and a James Beard award-winning [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Oct 26th, 2008
A tip of the baker’s cap to Modernemama from Beach House, who correctly identified yesterday’s mystery dessert as Banoffee Pie. Or is it Banoffi?
While standing in line at the coffee shop last week, I heard about this British dessert for the first time. As the Ancient Recorder of Obscure and Far-Fetched Sweets, I do not [...]
Posted in Let's Cook, recipes on Oct 23rd, 2008
Making tiny molded sugars – no, not moldy sugars, sugars shaped in molds - surely pegs me as a fussy, fussy girl. Anyone who deliberately takes sugar from its god-given home - the pourable shaker - and hand-spoons it into wee tins has got to be a little touched, right? Fussy.
But…is it fussy, or [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Oct 18th, 2008
Noodle kugel is a humble dish with an outsize name - a funny name, good for comedians and grandmas and giggling kids. Kugel is ripe with pronunciation – koo-gle or kuh-gle or whatever, just pass-me-that-stuff-now. It’s found on Jewish holiday tables and in deli case pyramids, golden twisty egg noodles cut in thick and improbably [...]
