Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
Long-time readers will know that I really admire the cookbooks of Beth Hensperger. First there was the ‘Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook,’ where she has managed to demonstrate how to properly use a bread machine…
It’s been quite a while since I wrote up a recipe. Partly that is because I’ve started a new job. Partly it’s been because THE book (see picture on the left) is still hanging fire…
Not this post, but the second edition of Blog appetit. The subject this time is lamb and fresh peas (agneau et petits pois). There are already 26 lovely-looking recipes up with more to come, plus…
I have written here and elsewhere on occasion about how the traditional food media are not necessarily the best places to turn anymore for food writing. While there are absolutely brilliant restaurant reviewers among food…
You have to admire the effort that Viv puts in to her SeattleBonVivant blog. She posts multiple times per day and seems to cover just about everything. She has been a big supporter of the…
So, that lamb. I answered a question about it in the comments section of the ‘Anticipation’ entry below, but for those of you who don’t read the comments (you should), here are the salient points…
I am looking forward to this evening. I got up at 6:30, pulled a butterflied leg of lamb out of the fridge, carefully patted it dry with a paper towel and rubbed it with garlic,…
I thought Fatemeh at Gastronomie had a really tough decision to make this time. There ended up being 15 entries from 12 different blogs and I can safely say that I would be happy making,…
Wow! It is rather hard to add up how many entries we have for the Paper Chef this time around. At least two blogs posted entries by more than one person and more than that…
I start a new job today – after many months of being unemployed. So I am not going to have time to get to rounding up the entries until later this evening. So, you officially…