Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
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 […]
Posted in YouTube, flickr, food, just plain silly, links, photos, recipes, wine on May 6th, 2010
Beyonce, girlfriend, forget rings. You and I have got to talk about fried eggs. Especially this one. Because there’s this woman Deb, she runs an excellent website, and she has a recipe I think you will like– because see that glossy, fried golden egg on top of it all? This is a recipe all the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The multi-talented Melanie BeanPaste has an adjunct cooking blog named BeanPlate, and starting shortly, she (and me, and several other talented contributors) will be posting 30 days of bean recipes. Because my paycheck v. my debts = hill of beans. And come on, all those health nuts say we should all be eating more beans […]
Posted in Better Half, Pantry cooking, cooking, flickr, food, gluten free, photos, recipes, wine on Dec 21st, 2008
Here, chez BLC, the joke with grocery shopping is to be extra careful with the bag with the eggs. “Hey, be careful, there’s eggs in there!” is the invariable caution. Which makes every other “be careful” warning turn into “hey, there’s eggs in there.” Yep. One line, one trick ponies.
So when I was contemplating the […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, ham sandwich, links, photos, recipes on Nov 28th, 2008
If you want the recipe to anything in particular, click on the photo, and it will bring you to the photo in my FlickrStream. Recipes are in the photo description. Hope your holiday left you pleasantly stuffed physically and emotionally.
No wine this year– with a pregnant sister-in-law, two sober alcoholics, and me enjoying […]