by Suzi | Nov 16, 2010 | Recipes
How do you get that red color in the picture? You can’t do it with watermelon. Berries perhaps. But that red in a margarita glass announces its true heritage: prickly pear cactus. Prickly pears arrive in farmers’ markets in the southwest in late summer. It can take...
by Suzi | Nov 14, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
We’ve had plenty of responses to Friday’s post about the Stuffed Pumpkin from Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table. My daughter told me that Dorie is being interviewed on NPR about recipes from this new gem of a book. And Dorie has talked about...
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by Suzi | Nov 12, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
From time to time I have to emphatically praise the exceptional. This is such a time. Dorie Greenspan’s new book Around My French Table is so much fun I can’t stand it. Besides the perfect recipes, the book reads like a fabulous mystery book, a true page turner. Of...
by Suzi | Nov 10, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Constant communications confusion causes kitchen catastrophes. Say that five times quickly. Or, this one. Big banana bunches briefly bring baking bounties. Brian said something about getting bananas. As a favor, I did it for him. He did it for himself. We now had a...
by Brian | Nov 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
Why are recurring dreams always so scary? Mine are terrible. Long, unpleasant and intense. There’s the one where the Head Librarian from my graduate school has summoned me back to Baltimore. She’s seven feet tall, dips down towards me, and nastily says I have to...
