gone aw-rye

I splurged the other month on rye flour (and pumpernickel flour, and a few other things) at King Arthur the other month and a snow day from work seemed like a perfect opportunity to take my inaugural spin. I have a couple of recipes, but the one I went with was from Marcy Goldman’s Treasury [...]

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curried lentils and sweet potatoes with swiss chard

Deb took lovely pictures when she prepared this. I… did not. This is not a dish that gets much in the way of presentation points. But it is tasty and it is easy. I’ve made this before, but not since last winter, so I started cutting the sweet potatoes as if they would be ultimately [...]

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Is an open-faced calzone still a calzone?

Occasionally, on Friday evenings when I don’t come home ravenous and willing to eat the first thing I reach for in the fridge, I like to make pizza. It’s rarely proper pizza – either by NYC standards or, you know, anyone’s standards. It’s more often whatever veggies I have that’ll work, onion, and whatever cheese [...]

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raisin-cinnamon bread

The things we do for love. I got The Bread Baker’s Apprentice for Chanukah this year (yay!) and while I want to make pretty much everything in it, this one ended up being first. I’m not a huge fan of raisin-cinnamon bread, but a certain two-year-old of my acquaintance is and my not-so-secret plan to [...]

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oatmeal quickbread

Best you see the ‘after’ first, since the before would not exactly excite you about baking this bread. Recipe from here, reproduced faithfully with the exception that I added an extra quarter cup of un-ground oats, an extra half-tablespoon of honey, and I let it sit twenty minutes or so before dropping it on to [...]

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pizza-esque

You’re supposed to spend Yom Kippur thinking about important things. And I do. But I also spend a little time thinking about what I can’t do — eat. This year was perhaps worse than usual in terms of the food fantasizing. I don’t know why I opted for pizza, but I spent most of the [...]

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lahmejune, after a fashion

There’s a fabulous little Ararat bakery near my home that I haven’t been to in years for no good reason. They sell, among other wonders, excellent flatbread and fantastic lahmejune. However, lahmejune really isn’t very hard to make, even if mine isn’t yet as good as theirs. I was going to use this recipe, but [...]

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