I’m not terribly impressed with the picture… but there was no way I couldn’t blog about this. This is the chili to end all chilis. I don’t know if I’ll ever need…
Halloween Party: Pasta, Cupcakes and… Britney Spears?
I know that most people celebrate Halloween with candy… so how in the world did I end up spending my holiday with pasta, cupcakes and Britney Spears? I suppose I should begin…
The Wednesday Chef: Florence Fabricant’s Fettuccine with Mushroom Ragú
I am in love with this blog. I already posted about the Belgian Brownies, which, coincidentally, I plan to make again tonight for our Halloween festivities. But I also ended up raiding…
Stephen Cooks: Chocolate Espresso “Mayan” Cookies
Wow… this Magazine Monday thing is not off to a good start for me. It’s because of midterms, but I know that’s no excuse… I’ve been pretty lazy with the book reviews…
The Wednesday Chef
I stumbled across The Wednesday Chef very recently, and I immediately became obsessed with Luisa’s recipes. She gets them from the New York and LA Times’ food sections, which appear on Wednesdays….
Dinner Parties and Tarte Tatin
“Festina tarde was a renaissance concept: make haste slowly.” It’s taken me a long time to get to Under the Tuscan Sun, but it’s not for lack of cooking. On Saturday night,…
Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre and Tartiflette
The French may, in fact, be my favorite people in the world. Why? Because of this: La Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre. For all you non-Francophones out there, that means a wine…
Artichokes
Way back in September, when I was still just exploring Rue Cler, and my butcher hadn’t yet started making fun of me for the sheer amount of meat I buy (I like…
Pumpkin Dahl
Just a quick little post on the Pumpkin Dahl recipe I tried from Well Fed. As always, there were substitutions: spinach for the kale and white beans for the black-eyed peas, but…
Roast Chicken and a New Book
I have to say, I was very, very proud of this chicken. I don’t really know why… maybe it’s because even though I kind of used the recipe for Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken…