I no longer remember why I thought it was a good idea to make mole, but J. was totally into it. In fact, it was more his project than mine! And J. is much more conscientious than I am about actually following recipes, so I was thinking of not blogging it at all. However, this […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
