every bite tells a story
Posted in Josie, fruit desserts, recipes, ten-word thursday, vacation on Aug 13th, 2009
Oh sure, you’re thinking, sure. Radio silence for a week, and then just ten words? Well, yes. But they are a juicy ten. You may recall that we just came down from Lake Superior country, and up there, everywhere, blueberries. Wild blueberries from green brush, tumbling down from Canada, blueberries not from the store, little [...]
Posted in Josie, bread, breakfast & brunch, recipes on Aug 7th, 2009
Quick – what do you get when you mix gleaming tools, anesthetic, swelling, gauze, ice packs and codeine? That’s right. You get oral surgery. Today, poor Miss Josie had her third go-around in the big chair. Three times now they’ve tried to uncover a tooth that just wouldn’t budge; today, the doctor made that tooth [...]
Posted in chicken, guest posts, recipes on Jul 28th, 2009
I’m out of town, and lucky to bring you a guest post from wonderful writer Paige Orloff, food editor of The Sister Project. When Paige isn’t writing, cooking, or thinking about cooking, this city-turned-country girl cares for family, friends, horses and fowl. I asked Paige to share a food memory, and did she ever; clearly, [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, culinary school, recipes, sauces 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 [...]
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, [...]
