It’s been rather a while since I’ve posted a recipe here, hasn’t it? I apologize that this wasn’t available before Thanksgiving, but truth be told I invented this pie for my own Thanksgiving table and so it simply wasn’t around long enough in advance for me to share it with you in time for that. [...]
To those of you who celebrate it, Happy American Thanksgiving. I celebrate it aware of the great historical and continuing problems it often subsumes in a tide of compulsory consumption, but also aware, and in great gratitude, for the chance to spend time with people I love, enjoying good food and what is one of [...]
All the best cookery is more than the sum of its parts. Pie is no exception. This pie has a total of 10 ingredients. 11 if you count water, which traditionally doesn’t get counted in recipe-writing. Your pie could have even fewer, potentially, and still be glorious. Pie crust should not scare you. If you [...]
Withoutscene and Glenda, please email me your mailing addresses. I shall be adding your additions to my bio posthaste, and then sending you each a book! In other important news, those of you in the mid-Atlantic might wanna know specifically about a few upcoming events that are happening this weekend and next… On Saturday night [...]
This weekend I hosted a little get-together whose theme was Deviled Eggs and Pie, those being the two things I most want to eat when it’s hot aside from fresh, mostly raw, veggies and lots of dead-ripe fruit. One of my guests was intolerant to gluten, so I decided it was high time to start [...]
The phrase, as you know, is “easy as pie.” But it should be “easy as cake.” Cakes are easier than pies. There is no reason you, or anyone, should ever have recourse to packaged cake mix. This assertion will doubtless rankle some, but oh, as they say, well. If you have eggs, flour, butter, milk, [...]
You might not guess it (or maybe you might?) but I have a competitive streak a mile wide about some things. For the last couple of years, one of those things has been the Cookie Swaps hosted by my fabulous local indie bookstore, Atomic Books. They’re part traditional cookie swap, part booze-up, and part good-hearted [...]
If you have a food processor, you can make some darn fine cheese straws — or homemade Cheez-Its, or I suppose you could shape them like the little goldfish crackers if you were a little obsessive — in less than half an hour. And what with it being cold out and cheese straws being so [...]
Does this count as regifting? Or just as being resourceful? It came to me this morning while I was rolling out dough for Nancy Silverton’s awesomesauce graham cracker recipe (make them with whole wheat pastry flour!) that I had a sizeable two year old bottle of homemade limoncello in the cupboard and that at the [...]
The air is getting cooler here. It was almost cold this morning when I walked the dog, thrilling to feel on my bare arms while we walked the sun up out of the clouds. I am thinking about fall, my favorite season of the year, and how grateful I am that I will be spending [...]