Having mentioned my favorite chocolate wafer recipe, I figured that I should also put it up! Of all of the chocolate-and-fruit pairings, I love chocolate and lemon the best – the richness of the chocolate pairs well with the acidity and floral flavor of the […]
it’s the dead of the winter, and the gray skies have the happy consequence of making lemon taste like sunshine. there’s nothing like eating something that you know is definitely out of season, you know? and i don’t know about you, but i don’t feel […]
so i’ve been at home in carlisle for about two weeks now; my new lease doesn’t start until mid-july, and this was just the easiest thing to do logistically. it’s weird having everything packed away in boxes, though – and it proves that you really can live without all your stuff. i think i just like having all the stuff around – a little clutter is somewhat comforting.
anyway, the upshot of this is that i have really been far too busy to cook anything. (as it happens, i do have a restaurant review in the works, but i’m going to wait until i’m not typing entries on my ipod for that.). you know how it goes: you don’t want to clutter your fridge with more stuff when you’re about to move, and then you pack up your stuff, then work gets busy, and you’re not unpacked…this is partly why i haven’t moved in five years. this is also how i managed to amass an entire kitchen’s worth of kitchen tools, dishes, and utensils – independent of my roommates’ stuff. yeah. it’s a little obscene. (more…)
this one’s a keeper. there was a post about this bread/cake at thekitchn, which is originally from flo braker (via leite’s culinaria). i love sweet yeasted breads and buns, and this is the best of the bunch. really, it’s a cake, but i always think of yeasted […]
i’ve been working pretty hard, and i rewarded myself recently with a cannele mold (the smallest one i’ve ever seen! not that i have seen a lot of cannele molds, but it’s smaller than i thought it would be) from amazon. i don’t really have […]
for the entirety of this summer, i have been trying to convince myself and my health that i am on vacation, and that life is normal again. for about a year – since june 2008 – i haven’t had a real break, one where i puttered around the house doing nothing but maintaining the rituals of daily life, and thinking about cooking. and by the rituals of daily life, i mean really mundane things: doing laundry, making my bed, putting away clothes, vaccuming the carpet, cleaning the kitchen counters. every now and then, given the privations of grad school and employment, i need at least a week of doing nothing – waking up whenever, doing whatever.
i expected to get a break this summer, but apparently it wasn’t meant to be. there were trips to lowell for work, a site visit for thesis, training sessions for my teaching job, teaching at the bac, then more work at lowell and an attempt to work on thesis…you get the point. and although these commitments don’t come close to those that i maintain during the school year, they were enough to deprive me of any chance to really get back up to speed and feel like i was motivated to do anything. and i do mean anything – it has taken two and a half months, but i am finally motivated to cook regularly again. i haven’t done very much thesis work in the past two days, even though our first review is in a few weeks, but i have woken up late and cooked a lot, and i feel vastly better right now than i have since that happy time of rejuvenation in june 2008. (more…)
it’s been a long time since I last wrote, pretty much because it’s been so darn hot that turning on the stove and/or oven just isn’t an option. however, the past couple of days have been quite favorable towards cooking, so I got back into […]
(sorry, no witty title; i think i’m just not gifted in that respect.) one of these days, i will actually get around to planning a real dinner party, where all of the details are planned out, but the whole shebang is still nice and relaxed. […]