I’m making Eccles cakes today. I first had these when I worked at a dry cleaner’s in Providence in my late teens. My boss brought them in from a Portuguese bakery near her house. I always thought they were Portuguese in spite of the English-sounding name, but they’re not.
A and B love these sweet and [...]
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Eccles cakes
Posted in food, plastic and its relatives, recipes on October 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I wish I’d thought of this
Posted in computer doodah, food, interesting sites, language, recipes, writing on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Alan just sent me a link to a New York Times article on Twitter and recipes. I’m not interested in Twitter, but I think what this woman is doing with it is amazing and wonderful. Read it, it’s great. It fits in six of my blog categories!
Lime leaves and Tom Yum (yum-yum)
Posted in random blab, recipes on February 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently I had Tom Yum soup with chicken at Zen Zero. It was tangy, bright, and comforting all at the same time, perfect for a winter day. I started hunting for a recipe so I could make it at home. I found several good ones, and so made a little amalgam based on what I [...]
Fried green tomatoes – what’s the deal?
Posted in random blab, recipes, tagged fried green tomatoes on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re about to get our first frost, maybe tomorrow or Monday, and so it’s the end of the line for the garden. I went out and picked a big bowl of green tomatoes.
Fried green tomatoes, like ribs and chili, were not in our food lexicon during my New England childhood. I don’t even think [...]
Cake, pie, throwing things away
Posted in plastic and its relatives, random blab, recipes, tagged plastic, thunder cake, trash on September 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On Friday I made a cake and two pies for A’s and P’s birthday. The cake is a Thunder Cake, adapted from the children’s book Thunder Cake, by Patricia Polacco. When B was little, we read the book and tried out the recipe. I’m not a very good cake baker, and this [...]
A nice fortuitous recipe
Posted in random blab, recipes, tagged tuna recipe on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you get to a rented beach house, there is nothing in the pantry except for salt and pepper. There’s no soap in the bathrooms, no matches for the grill, and certainly no soy sauce or spices. Today was our third trip to the grocery store, and who thinks about buying garlic? I always have [...]
Summer food
Posted in random blab, recipes, tagged pasta sauce, summer food, tomatoes on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just a sidetrack from the normal blather:
We have gobs of fresh tomatoes from the garden, herbs out front, and garlic from our friend Kathy’s garden. I roasted a head of the garlic in a little casserole dish. I cut a bunch of herbs – rosemary, thyme, oregano, and basil – and laid them on a [...]
NaBloPoMo
Posted in random blab, recipes on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to be sorry when NaBloPoMo ends, because it’s making me post a whole lot more than I would have otherwise. Maybe I can keep it up.
For today, not much. My boy is home from school, I worked all day and cooked a nice supper, producing only a small amount of plastic [...]
