I’ve been busy. Long time, no post….but check this out. There are funny looking things growing in my house. On purpose. With an assignment for an article about growing mushrooms on your kitchen counter, I’ve got 5 little habitats of fungi sprouting from bags or boxes and hopefully some day from a log. Still waiting on that one!
The most interesting, and so far the most successful, has been the lion’s mane. I’ve never seen or tasted this one before.
Boy, if you whine enough…publicly helps, perhaps, on this blog…look what happens! A box of lemons arrive on my doorstep. Well, I thought they were lemons. Big juicy lemons for lemon curd, lemon pie, lemonade…When I talked to Priscilla to thank her for the wonderful lemons from their tree she told me the little round one was not a lemon at all, but a sweet lime.
Someone once told me that the key to a good balsamic vinegar is one that you can actually just drink. Well, I think I finally found the best one I have ever tasted that does not come with a hefty price tag. It is truly sweet with deep tannins so to say.
Priscilla always tells me about her lemon harvest. She’s in California, I’m in Illinois. I’m jealous. The kids help haul the lemons in their toy dump trucks and wagons to the kitchen and they scrub them to prep for the lemon-aid stash for the freezer. I’m jealous. No lemons trees here.
I found some beautiful white asparagus at the market and have always wanted to try it. Today was the day! Doing a bit of research, I found that German tradition dictates a combination of simple boiled potatoes and ham with a drizzle of brown butter. It was perfect!
I was intrigued with the notion of Bunny Chow ever since I discovered it in the premier issue of Afar magazine a couple years ago. First the name catches your attention and then the description. How could South African street
The blog is taking a back seat these days, as you have noticed. Very little cooking going on here as we transition from one kitchen to the other. The Cookery is slowly getting packed up with only minimal equipment left out for soups and stir-fries to sustain us. The new kitchen is
My dad was a big smoker..well, he did smoke in his younger years, but what I really mean was he loved to smoke salmon and chicken and whatever. When he discovered a stove top smoker he loved it and gave me one for
It’s been a harsh winter around here! We had a meltdown (personally and literally)—too much snow! Then the weather warmed up nicely and it started melting. Spring!!! Well…not so fast. It came back with ice and fog…late winter
In my never ending quest for flatbreads around the world I have found scallion pancakes. The perfect quick bread to round out any meal, even some good old American Bean Soup…just the thing for our blizzard of 2011! I’m always intrigued with the various methods of creating flaky pastries in different cultures. The puff pastry of France
Great name, and…it’s just delicious. I can eat this with any form of meat or vegetable, salad, or just as a dip. In fact when the parsley is running wild in the garden it’s a perfect thing to make and freeze in little containers for the rest of
The days are lengthening. OK…not by much, but I’m not walking home from work in the dark these days. There’s plenty of snow blanketing the gardens and the seed catalogs are filling the mail box. The sure sign of spring to come. So many options, so many new varieties to choose, so many old heirlooms toexplore. A letter has
