We’re obsessed with rice pilaf around here. Leftovers rarely last 24 hours. Because the rice-sauteeing stage is boring, and because I love the slow cooker, I decided to try doing it in the slow cooker. At first, I thought I’d only be able to do the sauteeing part in the slow cooker and then move […]
I went to a catered event last night, an event that included dinner. People attending got a choice between grilled salmon or chicken breasts in a mushroom cream sauce. As a vegetarian, I am not a big fan of chicken — but I am a huge fan of mushrooms and (unfortunately) dairy fat. Since I […]
We bought way too much fruit last weekend. I would say there’s no such thing as too much fruit, but there is — when it goes bad. To prevent that terrible outcome, I took the liberty last night of transforming our excess stone fruit into a crumble.
This is the first cooking experience on this blog […]
J. let me get the purple cherry tomatoes last weekend (didn’t take much arm-twisting), but another batch of pesto alla trapanese revealed that purple tomatoes are still rather red when you put them through a food processor:
This batch is disappearing almost as quickly as the last one. BTW, I think two to three tablespoons of […]
I love my slow cooker more than I love any other kitchen appliance. It allows me to put things on to roast or simmer and walk away for hours at a time, saing me the boredom of actually monitoring them. (If that sounds dangerous to you, remember that I usually work at home.) When I […]
I subscribe to Cook’s Illustrated, which is a little magazine with no ads, lots of line drawings and lots of articles written by people who are trying to perfect their recipe for one particular thing. I mean, really, the articles talk about making the same dish 50 times in order to test things like whether […]
