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  • Friday Food Festival

    Dear Grandma Jackie--I tried your recipe for Sarma last night. After the fashion of all recipes written down by people over the age of sixty-seven (sorry--hope I'm not giving anything too shocking away here), it require…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A surprise hit yesterday in our home was. . . . . . . I swear, I am not making this up . . .carrot fries.Really.We buy fruits and veggies at Costco more often than not, and so our carrots come in ten-pound bags. I have …

  • Friday Food Festival

    Did you ever sit down and think about the evolution of language?No? You must not have children.Theo has started eating solid foods (if mushy starches can really be called either solid or food). Isaac has started cookin…

  • Friday Food Festival, several days late

    We had a very lovely Thanksgiving at our house this year.Mimi and Pop-pop came for a visit. (Dear Becky and Marleny: Neener neener neener, I've got the Mimi!)We made lots of good, good things, and ate most of them.Dontc…

  • Friday Food Festival

    Isaac and I made a pie this week that was not from the Look and Cook: Pies book that we like so much.That book, oddly enough, didn't have a really good apple pie.Now, the The Pie and Pastry Bible, which is a good book, h…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A bumper butternut crop!I love butternut squash. Our three little squash vines put out a moderately respectable quantity of fruit, the first part of which we enjoyed this week.My favorite thing to do with butternut squa…

  • Friday Food Festival, a few days late

    A jalousie, so my tart cookbook informs me, is a louvred shutter.That didn't really help Isaac very much. ("What's 'louvred' mean? Like the Louvre Museum?")But it was a delicious dessert anyway, whatever you call it.Is…

  • Cooking Lesson--Pie Edition

    Isaac has decided that, in addition to soups, we will be learning how to make pies, tarts, quiches, and galettes this semester.He decided this after one of our friends brought us a homemade chicken pot pie. (This was fo…

  • Summer Recipes, Continued

    Plug-In Pasta SaladContinuing in the plug-in, hodge-podge, whatever-you-have-on-hand-or-on-sale tradition, here is my pasta salad formula.You must start with a quantity of pasta. The easiest way to do this is to have pa…

  • Friday Food Festival--Summer Recipes Edition

    I have asserted my gestational prerogative and lowered the air conditioning to about 72. I have also insisted that all fans remain on at all times, and that no one leave an incandescent light burning in any room into wh…

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