Cherry Cranberry Muffin Cake
Cherry Cranberry Muffin Cake is just what it sounds like: muffins that have become cake. Credit for the muffin cake concept goes to Dorie Greenspan. Writing in Baking From My Home to Yours, Greenspan describes having readied the ingredients for apple nut muffins only to have her brunch guests show…
Greetings from the East Bay
I am still here. My internet connection is another story. Some of you may recall my complaining loudly about our crummy internet setup. I’ll spare you the details; suffice to say, we finally got fiber and thought our troubles were over. How very silly of us. While it’s true we…
Pasta with chicken, greens, and chickpeas
Pasta with chicken, greens, and chickpeas is a mouthful, literally and figuratively. It’s also lacking in originality. But pasta with chicken, greens, and chickpeas compensates for its unwieldy name and creative lack with flavor and lots of fiber, our new best friend chez IK. The ingredients for pasta with chicken…
Remember me?
Hi. It’s been a while. There’s no way to sugarcoat this. On May 1st, at about 5pm, John asked me to help him use the toilet. Without going into undue detail, the request was unusual. As I lifted John from his wheelchair to the toilet, we discovered he was hemorraging….
Artichoke Risotto
In Chez Panisse Cooking, Paul Bertolli prepares artichokes by boiling them whole, then separating the hearts from the leaves. He-or, more likely, a sous chef–then scrapes the “meat” from each individual artichoke leaf, mixing it with chopped shallot, garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil. The resulting artichoke mush may…
Spinach and Potato Tian
Elizabeth David, writing in Is There A Nutmeg In The House, describes a tian as “an open earthenware casserole or gratin dish called in the Provencal language a tian….” David goes on to say there is no fixed recipe for a tian beyond using “a certain proportion of freshly cooked…
Red Pepper Salad with Parsley and Feta Cheese
Apologies for not posting. Acute tendinitis has limited my ability to work on the computer. — I love feta cheese, but I forget about it. I’ll buy some, wonder why I don’t use it more in my cooking, then forget it for another six months. Here, then, is my latest…
Checking in
Hello all- I am dealing with a tendinitis flare in my left hand. This makes posting–among many other life activities- challenging. My apologies. I have excellent medical care and reasonable hope this will soon be resolved, allowing me to post. Thank you for being here- D.
Macaroni and Cheese with Baby Greens
Macaroni and Cheese–or Macaroni Cheese, if you’re a Brit–is a dish of infinite variety. A popular local restaurant menu offers Macaroni and Cheese with Enchilada Sauce, Mac n’Cheese “pizza style,” and, in perhaps the ultimate fusion dish, mac n’ cheese with Korean Short Ribs. Then there’s Nigella’s rightfully famed Mac…
Blood Orange Ice Cream
Americans of a certain age might recall 1970’s Samsonsite luggage commercials. These advertisements featured a gorilla in an otherwise empty airport, trying and failing to destroy a Samsonite suitcase. This ad came to mind Monday, when my husband returned after a brief trip. He’d flown on the “good” airline, the…
