Mon - January 7, 2008Wed - September 26, 2007Tue - August 7, 2007Twilight Peach CrispIt’s early August and just as the summer
heat is just upon us it’s the twilight of the peach season in
Texas.
While some orchards have closed, one local grower has a variety that they’re picking through August 9th , so it’s not sunset yet on one of my favorite summer treats. I didn’t hesitate when my neighbor Phil offered some of his peach bounty to me a couple of weeks ago. Posted at 07:05 AM Read More Mon - July 16, 2007Open Your Eyes and Tastebuds to the TomatilloMexican is the cuisine I crave the most, but cook
the least.
I offer no explanation for this contradictory behavior other than I have grown up in and still nest in the middle of Tex-Mex heaven where Mexican restaurants are almost as proliferous as Starbuck’s stores in San Francisco where there’s one on every corner. Posted at 11:00 AM Read More Thu - June 28, 2007Fearing's Cowboy Shrimp on White Corn GritsIt was bare concrete and a bit dusty on my first
visit, but, oh, the vision of what’s to
come.
It is "Fearing's" and the mastermind behind the vision, Dean Fearing, stepped lively and spoke passionately about his venture on a recent hard-hat tour of the restaurant's space in the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. Posted at 06:15 AM Read More Thu - May 31, 2007A Pound Cake and A Happy FaceI never had a sweet tooth as kid. This was much
to my mother’s chagrin I’m sure.
She would pour forth as much or more effort on her desserts as the main dish. Sometimes I would indulge in a forkful or two of the ooey gooey sweet ending, but more often than not I would take an extra helping of vegetables or a piece of bread instead. Posted at 07:47 AM Read More Thu - March 1, 2007Garlic and Thyme Roasted Pork Loin with Brandy Cream SaucePork.
Check. Thyme. Check. Garlic. Check. I stood in my kitchen last Saturday afternoon taking inventory of everything I needed for my “Open The Bottle Night” with friends where we would share a meal and open a special bottle of wine. Posted at 09:42 PM Read More Thu - February 22, 2007Comfort Food: Macaroni and CheeseAs comfort food and cheese goes it doesn't get
any better than macaroni and
cheese.
I've been on the hunt this past year for the ultimate macaroni and cheese recipe excluding the boxed stuff. Posted at 08:48 AM Read More Sat - January 27, 2007A Fondue NightEmily joined me for dinner this past Thursday
night and we indulged our mutual love of cheese with a fondue dinner.
If ever I were given the unfortunate choice of emptying my fridge of all items save one, cheese would win. But olives and eggs would give the cheese a good run for its money. Posted at 01:03 PM Read More Tue - January 23, 2007So Many Recipes, So Little TimeWith the exception of a quick trip to San Diego
last week, my suitcase has been gathering dust since the week before
Thanksgiving. I love to travel, but I love to cook more. And no travel means
lots of time in the kitchen - cooking, experimenting, tasting, and loving it.
Over the past few weeks I’ve cooked for friends and family, and sometimes just myself. Posted at 05:25 PM Read More Sat - September 16, 2006Savoring the Taste of Pot Roast and Time With FamilyWhile sitting at a family dinner recently I
thought that of all the venues where we engage in conversation our exchanges
during the sharing of a meal is the most delightful and memorable.
We are loud, sometimes irreverent, and we’re bent to pick on anyone, guests included, when we see the potential for a good-natured laugh. We recount family history, sometimes we talk politics, but mostly it’s just the sharing of our lives through unremarkable stories about ourselves or others that we find amusing or entertaining. And we learn about each other in the process. Posted at 08:34 PM Read More Sat - June 17, 2006Deviled, Er, Heavenly EggsI love eggs. Scrambled. Poached. Boiled.
Over-medium and fried.
I like them elegantly crumbled in a salad, delicately situated atop an enchilada (now that’s authentic Mexican), simply sandwiched between two slices of bread with a bit of mustard, or deliciously deviled. Posted at 04:50 PM Read More Sun - April 9, 2006Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon SaltThough I’ve never tracked it, I’m
sure I spend more time in the kitchen trying new recipes than remaking old ones,
“old” here equals tried at least once
before.
A recipe has to really wow me to make it to the keeper list and this one did: Michael Chiarello's “Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon Salt”. It was simple and flavorful, two important keeper criteria especially for cooking on a weeknight. Posted at 04:20 PM Read More Sat - February 11, 2006Saturday Morning SconesOn my Indian-spice-buying-fling a few weeks back
I picked up a bag of star
anise; it was an impulse purchase since none of the recipes I had
looked at called for this rather mysterious, star-shaped
spice.
So I was pleasantly surprised to find an article in the January 2006 issue of Bon Appetit magazine devoted entirely to star anise. Posted at 02:14 PM Read More Thu - January 5, 2006In Search of FenugreekThe irony of it all is that I pass by this little
store on every visit to my parent’s house but I had to search to find
it.
Several recipes in an Indian cookbook that Hannah had given me for Christmas mentioned a spice that I had never heard of and most certainly had never seen on the shelves of my local grocery store – fenugreek. Posted at 09:39 PM Read More |
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