I have made pies. Many, many pies. Pies that have been complete and total failures, some that have just been meh. No one deserves to have a meh pie. Pie ...
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sconed love
Whenever I’m in England, I have to stop at least once and have a nice cream tea. If you’ve never had a cream tea: 1. you are missing out SO MUCH, and 2: it consists of tea (obviously), scones (real scones, not those bullshit plywood triangles Starbucks sells), jam, and clotted cream (if you took [...]
apple of my eye: the autumn onslaught
Eating seasonly has been an ongoing experiment in my household. Our first year with a local CSA has been awesome and overwhelming at the same time. We share the weekly bounty with another couple but even with cooking regularly and veggie-heavy, it can be overwhelming. Late spring it was greens coming out of my ears, mid-summer watermelons were [...]
quick, this is important
Why they have meat as the last chart is something I’ll never understand.
bayou bounty
So, let me be the first to admit that I am a true sucker for any food that can even remotely be associated with Louisiana. Actually, scratch that; I’m a true sucker for any soul food, but let’s assign it a state for the sake of this post. But why Louisiana, you ask? Because my [...]
oh, look! there’s no wait at granville moore’s tonight…
And now I know why. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Given all the delightfully sumptuous meals on record in the past few weeks, I knew I was way overdue for a dinner of vast disappointment. This time, it was at the hands of Granville Moore’s. No more hours-long waits for a table [...]
give your bread a dutch oven… heh
So after reading so much about using a dutch oven for making the perfect loaf I finally figured, what the hell. I have a pretty wonderful collection from Le Creuset pieces thanks to my husbands culinary themed gift giving prowess. Instead of risking damage to the knob on my dutch oven, I used the Doufeu, one [...]
hashtastic breakfast
Today was the first legitimately chilly day of the season and I woke up with a jones for some comfort food. Last year, my husband bought me a set of Le Creuset Mini Cocettes for Christmas and I go to great lengths to incorporate them into meals, especially breakfast. They are perfect for shirred eggs and personal-sized [...]
mmmmmmmmmussels
So if you’re the slightest bit privy to my personal life, you’ll know that despite my efforts to keep it real and drama-free, it ends up being less like a life and more like a sitcom most of the time. This is, for the most part, manageable, but last week, that sitcom turned and twisted [...]
comfort in a crock (for two)
It was a balmy 80 degrees today, despite October being at our doorstep. While normally a summer person, this year has been particularly brutal so I anxiously await being able to cook hearty, comforting foods again. On one of the rare cool and rainy days we had recently, I took advantage of the much longed-for weather with some [...]
two weiners are better than one
Being a pasty northeasterner, hot dogs to me are Sabretts or Nathans, served out of carts. Roll, ketchup, mustard, some relish… pretty straightforward stuff. Occasionally, people would go crazy and throw some cheese, chili, and onions into the mix, but hot dogs were a neutral dish – for carts or cookouts only, and even then… sort [...]
