Chocolate is a no-brainer for Valentine’s Day but what is it going to be? Candy? Cake? Ice Cream? None of the above? How about an intensely chocolate bread pudding? Oddly, until this week I had never made chocolate bread pudding, … Continue reading
You know, don’t you, that Superbowl Sunday really is a national holiday? At least grocery stores think so, because they lay out a display of edibles and drinkables for the event just as they do for Fourth of July or … Continue reading
Gorgonzola and I are old friends but during the past couple of years, I have fallen deeply in love with it. I began to see it with new eyes when I ate a roasted onion and Gorgonzola pizza. I took … Continue reading
It is supposed to be good luck to eat Hoppin’ John on New Year’s, and I missed the opportunity. So this Southern regional rice and black-eyed pea dish is going to have to benefit just my budget, which it does … Continue reading
I love Pad Thai, and for years I only enjoyed it when I ate out. Once I bought a kit and tried to make it at home, but it was so disappointing that I didn’t repeat it, and I didn’t … Continue reading
Don’t get me wrong! I love holiday food and cooking for celebrations. It is fun to have rich, little yummy things around to slice and serve, nibble, slurp, and relish. But I am about cooked-out right now. A can of … Continue reading
Oh, what a big, sticky mess I made: dribbles of soft ball sugar syrup all over the mixer and counter, then a beater whisk crusted up with whipped egg whites and sugar, gooey blobs here and there, and my fingers … Continue reading
At the holidays, many of our traditions are grounded in the holiday baking we indulge in this time of year: cookies, special breads, pastries. Why, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie or apple pie. It wouldn’t be Christmas without … Continue reading
Delicata squash are easily my favorite of the winter keepers and there is a stack of about twenty of them in one corner of my bedroom where I keep them because it is cool (low fifties most of the time) … Continue reading
As surely as Thanksgiving comes on the fourth Thursday of November, during the run up to the holiday food historians like me get their fifteen minutes of fame, usually in two minute radio or TV segments or by being widely … Continue reading
