Archive for January, 2008

Frankly-faux Cheese Souffle

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Souffle Tuesday is not dead — just taking a long winter’s nap. One of these weeks I’m going to test and post a true souffle recipe again, but a few nights ago I was feeling too lazy to whisk and fold egg whites and so trotted out this dependable old war horse from my stable [...]

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Wild Child at The River Cafe

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

The first — and only — time I ate at London’s River Cafe, I set the carpet on fire. The blaze was small and quickly extinguished by J, and our waiter was lovely about the entire episode, but my heart still pounds when I think about what-might-have-been.
It’s just that I’d waited so long to go [...]

Tags: border collie, lamb shanks, recipes, River Cafe, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

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Birthday Fare

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

This year my birthday was a four-day festival, gastronomically bracketed by polenta and pork. Thursday night’s dinner at Village Pub in Woodside was pretty-near perfect, from the oxtail consomme with marrow dumplings right through the dessert beignets, followed by superb mignardises — my favorite new French word, learned from the sublime Clotilde at Chocolate & [...]

Tags: Gayle's bakery, La Posta, rack of pork

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Farewell, Old Friend

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

 

We had some good times; made some good food. I learned to cope with your thermostatic infidelity, but when you stopped self-cleaning the relationship was over for me.
 

Murphy’s Law of Kitchen Remodeling: The space vacated by the old appliance will be exactly one-half inch too small for the new.
 

Hello, Gorgeous!

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Low-carb; High-pleasure

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

After three weeks of Karen’s double-ginger biscotti, Nigella’s pomegranate ice cream, Diana’s marvelous miniature coconut tarts, my own homemade cookies, a gift box of caramels covered in white chocolate and topped with fleur de sel and one final, fabulous slice of left-over Buche du Noel for breakfast, my clothes are too tight. Quelle surprise!
Time to [...]

Tags: Guy Savoy, low-carb, raspberry gratin, recipes

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From Puglia

Friday, January 4th, 2008

The Slow Food dinner in the countryside of Puglia began with 17 appetizers, including freshly-fried little croquettes of I-know-not-what, sauteed zucchini slices, marinated peppers of various hues, olives, radishes and one bowl containing pale green slices of what looked like cucumber but tasted as if a melon had been frolicking in its gene pool.
J got [...]

Tags: carosello barese, carosello bianco leccese, Puglia, Slow Food

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Garden Dreams

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The deluge of seed catalogs has begun. J will be spending many a January evening pondering, planning and ordering while I graciously maintain spousal silence over the fact that he already has enough seeds to sow 157 gardens in addition to our own.
Certainly the vegetables, herbs and edible flowers he grows make my cooking easier [...]

Tags: Alain Ducasse

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