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. [...]
A raspberry sorbet that can be made any time of year, thanks to frozen fruit. A bit alcoholic. Not too sweet. Can be made non-sugared if desired. 12 oz. frozen raspberries 1 cup simple syrup OR unsugar syrup made with 1/4 cup Truvia brand sweetener dissolved in 1 cup water 6 Tablespoons raspberry liqueur (I [...]
The last few days I have had a wonderful houseguest, visiting all the way from Melbourne, Australia. She’s vegetarian, and I had promised her vegan Chinese dumplings, so last night we made vegan wonton. There are a couple different ways you can roll with a vegan dumpling filling and still have it be pretty solidly [...]
It’s been a week. For both of us. In so many ways. So to celebrate that we’re now at the end of it, I invented a cocktail, which I share with you all in case you would enjoy replicating it for yourselves. Government Shutdown Cocktail 2 parts bourbon 1 part maraschino liqueur 1 part simple [...]
So you say you need a dessert for a holiday gathering, but you’ve had enough of feeling bloated and over-sugared and you’d like something less cloying than another platter of sugar cookies? Simple. Simpler than simple, in fact. Take several nice pink or ruby red grapefruit. How many is up to you. I allow one [...]
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 [...]
Most people are terribly busy at this time of year. I am something of an exception to this, having decided some years ago that I was done with trying to travel between Hallowe’en and the New Year unless there were an unavoidable emergency. This has been a remarkably successful policy in terms of keeping my [...]
Leftover salad is an unlovely thing. What was sprightly and crisp, distinct and resilient becomes soft and tired, limp and worn. If you have dressed the salad, especially, you can expect to find it the next morning in a swamp of its own juices, sodden and dispiriting. The temptation is to just compost the lot [...]
Tagged leftovers, salads, soup‘Cause dayyum, it’s hot out there. 1. Flavored Waters — I see them for sale in the shops and I think “I may really be incapable of understanding how far people will go to avoid doing something that is nearly effortless to begin with.” Because $1.49 for 20 ounces of water with a little mint [...]
Tagged too hot to cookThis is a dish that falls squarely into the category that my friend Jeannette calls dolce far niente cooking. Perfect for hot weather, it is light and cooling but has strong, invigorating flavor. And, as the dolce far niente thing implies, it requires hardly any effort. You’ll want a couple-few cucumbers, a healthy-sized bunch of [...]
Tagged chiles, cilantro, cucumbers, salads, wednesday's supper