Ran into my friend Logan last summer. He apologized for not having replied to my email–from two years ago. He said he started a reply, but every time he went to send it he ended up revising it and it is still in his Drafts folder. It sounded funny at the time, but I now […]
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I made my first two pies this weekend. I’ve been re-reading Pascale LeDraolec’s American Pie (nothing to do with movie of the same name). It chronicle’s the author’s drive across America looking for pie, and it includes a bunch of pie recipes. My first two attempts were marriage pies (pies containing two different but complementary […]
I gotta say that’s a darn good title for a blog post, as well as a good title for: a mystery novel (she walked into my kitchen like a 6-burner Vulcan range) an album an art-house flick that garners a bunch of Oscar noms and wins Best Cinematography Anyhoo, it turns out that Heather and […]
Did you ever wonder why spaghetti sauce is cheaper than just plain tomato sauce? Let’s put it this way: would you put carrots in your spaghetti? Heck no, you wouldn’t. You also wouldn’t add all the other stuff on the side of the can that those guys add. Today I made my best batch of […]
Just in time for Christmas New Year’s! You wanna make some yourself? Here’s the recipe: MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew 6 potatoes 5 carrots 5 sticks of celery 6 leeks 1-3 lb lamb shank / leg of lamb salt pepper thyme, (chopped fresh thyme is best, but dried is doable) chicken broth fresh parsley Hardware […]
That’s not a complaint. Last night I cut up all the vegetables for MadMan Dan’s Emerald Isle Stew.
I just finished staying up with Heather watching Julie & Julia, a 2009 movie about two women: Julie Powell, as she spends a year cooking her way through all the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking while living in post-9/11 New York with her husband. It also tells the story of Julia […]