I’ve officially been writing this blog too long. Or, I’m officially lacking in creativity and originality. Why do I say that? Because, after writing about the Roasted New Potatoes Salad that you see above, I discovered I wrote about the exact same salad and only slightly differently almost exactly two years ago. However much that [...]
I forgot I had a potluck to attend last weekend, so I reached for an easy, reliable and always welcome recipe: Katharine Hepburn Brownies. You can find these brownies all over the Internet (at Patti Cakes, at Angelnina’s Cottage and The Gourmet Project, to name three). I found it in my Gourmet cookbook. You cannot, [...]
Lucky me. I found myself in possession of a selection of succulent local pears. Even though these are quite lovely eaten raw, I decided to use nearly all of them as the basis for my local-food contribution to yesterday’s local wine-local food dinner. At first, I thought I’d make a pear tart of some kind, [...]
Organic wines were the headliner at my friends’ house last night, and they provided the perfect accent to a weekend of good food. What a good deal, given that I haven’t cooked all weekend! I’ll talk about the food below, but here’s a bit about the wines. The wines we tasted, before I lost track: [...]
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Finally! Some good news on the food front: Red wine makes you live longer. Sort of. (OK, it’s not the wine but something in it, but why be picky?) Also in the news: socializing delays dementia. Probably, anyway. (Sometimes I wish these scientific studies were more definitive.) Put these two together, and you get wine [...]
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All right. Back to business writing about food. During the week in software sludge, I still managed to eat, and sometimes very well. I even took some pictures. So as not to let them go to waste, here are some highlights from last week: CSA delivery Lettuce, spinach, kale, mesclun. Perhaps you see a pattern [...]