After posting about a cake that divides easily and tastes fabulous, it’s time to delve into a cake recipe that… did not turn out quite as planned. Abject failure would be closer to the truth. The local library had a copy of Small Batch Baking, which features cakes, pies, and cookies reduced down to one- [...]
Archive for August, 2010
cakes of woe: a tragedy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged always room for dessert, tales of woe on 29 August 2010 | 2 Comments »
blueberry buckle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged always room for dessert, fruit on 22 August 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of my weaknesses in the summer is to empty my wallet on berries. The two places by work where I buy my fresh produce often have good sales on berries – 3-for-$5, the odd 4-for $5 for blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries depending on the season. It’s not unusual for me to splurge twice [...]
take me out to the ballgame
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Citi Field is supposed to have a wealth of fine stadium dining opportunities. It has a Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, high-end sushi, Korean barbecue, taquerias, and dozens upon dozens of other options including the old standbys of dogs and fries and pretzels. I finally got to Citi for a baseball game last weekend. It was [...]
cucumber and poppy seed salad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged no heat required, salad, vegetarian on 15 August 2010 | 1 Comment »
As happens every year in early August, people prove their love and affection to me by buying me stuff. *cough* One of my presents was Ottolenghi: the cookbook, the first collection by the fellows behind one of London’s hippest restaurants. I know, I know, English food! My time in England and Wales was coated in [...]
mung bean and corn salad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged not with the beans again, salad, vegetarian on 5 August 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is my current favorite summer salad. I’ve made it twice in a matter of weeks. It’s simple, it’s tasty, it’s filling, and it requires nothing more involved than a pot of boiling water (that you don’t need to be near) as far as cooking in a hot kitchen. And it’s even better the day [...]
too darned hot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged always room for dessert, no heat required on 2 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Heat waves in NYC are generally a few days long, once in a while stretching to maybe almost a week before there’s a thunderstorm and we’re back down to the muggy 80s instead of the sultry 90s. And so the plan was to wait until the heat broke before updating the blog because the computer [...]
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