There’s a May 24 column from Pete Wells in the Dining section of the NYT about not having access to his cookbooks since they’re boxed up for a move. He relates a lostness he feels, not having access to those pages, yet talks about how, not being tethered to the recipes, he’s in some ways […]
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Shakshuka and more of the poached egg chronicles (but Jenn, just add more feta)
Posted in Pantry cooking, baking, books, cooking, flickr, food, links, low carb, recipes on May 14th, 2010
Deb at Smitten Kitchen had this recipe for Shakshuka, an Israeli Spicy Tomato Stew with Poached Eggs that I really wanted to try. See, it looked really easy, a one pot dish that you built by layering flavors, and when the stew was basically done, you popped in a few eggs and poached them in […]
Screw noodles. This is the chicken soup that you want.
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 22nd, 2010
You will never want noodles again. Fine Cooking’s Chicken Soup with Lime and Hominy. Yum doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I made the following changes. (What? Me, leave a recipe all on its own?) I let the chicken dry-season with the salt, pepper, and oregano called for in the recipe while I sauteed the onion, […]
And now, for something completely different
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 19th, 2010
The new drugs I’m on kill my appetite.
Kill. I have no sense of fullness until– boom– I’m suddenly nauseous– and if I eat something too sweet, it gets my gag on something fierce.
There’s a post I’ve been working on– badly– forever, it seems, about food and control and issues of fatness and thinness and all […]
Bacon Muffins of Love
Posted in baking, bipolar, cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 9th, 2010
So– say you’ve been sick for a while– a never-ending cold that dragged on for a month, your cyclical spring depression and a brief, scary manic burst of irrational rage, various family things going on, etc., and you’ve also got to work and get up every day and at least pretend to the outside world […]
Pan-fried curried lamb shoulder chops with steamed cauliflower and yogurt sauce.
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Jan 4th, 2010
Holy crap, y’all. I cooked twice this week and not only lived to tell the tale, I also took pictures. After all of the working I’ve been doing, this hit the spot.
See? See? It’s true! The cook thing in my screen name isn’t all a vile lie. Pinky-swear.
This is roughly– very– based on this recipe from […]
New Year’s Eve Soup and Salad
Posted in Deep Thoughts, cooking, flickr, friends, links, photos on Jan 3rd, 2010
So, there’s this “cook” thing in my screen name. And I do it, sometimes. Amazing, I know.
Et voila, proof of the photographic variety, because you’re all no, we do not believe it. All you do is bitch about people without their receipts. Because you’ve never lost one piece of paperwork in your life.
So. Recipes, of a sort.
Zucchini, shredded […]
Feed Me Bubbe
Posted in YouTube, cooking, good things, sparkly on Aug 26th, 2009
I wanted to use the Yiddish term Bubbe yesterday– when I googled it, this was the number one page-ranked result– an actual guy’s Bubbe, giving lessons in kosher cuisine on You Tube. (Teh You Tubes for you younger kids.) I haven’t watched it all the way through, but it just kills me in […]
The year began with dinner
Posted in Better Half, cooking, flickr, food on Aug 19th, 2009
It’s not lunch a la Peter Mayle, I didn’t get started as early as that, (better late than never) but the BH and I rang in the Yes Year (Damn, that’s hokey, but what else to call it except maybe A Year in JP? Hmm.) on Monday night with my own version of the bruschetta […]
Pretty tofu confetti: cleaning the pantry
Posted in Pantry cooking, books, cooking, flickr, food, ham sandwich, links, photos, recipes on May 23rd, 2009
Okay– I admit that my fridge and pantry contain ingredients that are not “average.” But I still have to clean the sucker out and use food up before it goes bad. Times are tough, starving children in Africa, it’s a sin to waste food, or you’re just a cheap Yankee like me– any way you […]