The day in food, more or less. You don’t need to see my cereal. I used to cook my kumquats. Now they never last that long. I haven’t found the big containers this year; I bought these loose and at a more dear price. But they’re such good snacking. Last night’s steak au jus is [...]
Archive for April, 2009
scenes from a kitchen
Posted in Uncategorized on 23 April 2009 | 1 Comment »
spanakopita με matzo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bag it 'n' tag it, holiday fun, vegetarian on 18 April 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Inventive, but so wrong,” I believe was the phrase used. Which didn’t stop the (Greek) Best Friend from taking a second piece. I’d been planning on making spanakopita with matzo since last year, when I found this recipe too late to use for Pesach 2008. It’s fairly straightforward as written and the taste was fine, [...]
charoses – mortar of champions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged holiday fun, no heat required on 13 April 2009 | 1 Comment »
For Pesach, I observe the rules for Ashkenazi Jews with respect to kitniyot – no legumes, no rice, no most of what I eat every day – but when it comes to the seder and the charoses, I am more than happy to go do as the Sephardim do. Charoses, used to symbolize the mortar [...]
holiday baking: Pesach edition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged always room for dessert, holiday fun on 13 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What do you do before Passover? Clean. A lot. And then make a bloody mess. There are a lot of great things about Pesach, but dessert, traditionally, has not been one of them. When you’re not able to use corn products or flour, you either have to be creative or resign yourself to the denser-than-star-matter [...]
chicken stock
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poultry, soup monster on 5 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the roasting and the eating comes the making-stuff-with-the-scraps. This… …became this… …became this. I treated myself to a fine mesh strainer a couple of months ago; I make lemon curd enough that it was cheaper than restocking the cheesecloth, which I don’t really use for anything else. Still warm… …and cooled off for skimming [...]
vanilla extract
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged no heat required, try anything once on 1 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I go through a fair quantity of vanilla extract. While folks agree that for most baked goods it really doesn’t matter whether you use the real stuff or not, I also use it in situations where it would and for that reason I stick to the real deal. Making my own vanilla extract was the [...]
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