Archive for the 'caroline' Category
Maple Roasted Nuts
December 19th, 2011by Caroline Lots of people make some version of a sweet or spicy roasted nut during the holidays; this is what Tony makes every year. We give bags to all our teachers and then snack on them all season long. 1 pound nuts ¼ cup maple syrup ¼ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon [...]
Roasted Chickpeas
December 16th, 2011by Caroline Where was I during the Great Roasted Chickpea Craze of 2010? Google the phrase and you’ll find that apparently everyone was making them, or eating them, except me. But though I’m late to the party, I am happy to be here, because this is a delicious and easy snack. There seem to be [...]
Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake
December 12th, 2011by Caroline I spent all week at home with a feverish kid, and while it was sweet to slow down, to lie on the couch reading picture books and drifting into short naps, after a while the confinement began to wear on me. When he finally got better, I was out-of-proportion grateful, and excited to [...]
English Muffin Loaf
December 7th, 2011by Caroline What’s not to love about a community cookbook, a crowd-sourced collection of family recipes from a school, church, or the local Junior League? I have a small collection of them, some from our preschool and churches my Dad has served, and some I’ve picked up at tag sales because the cover or layout [...]
Homemade Ramen Noodles
December 5th, 2011by Caroline At some point this summer, I picked up the inaugural issue of David Chang’s new food magazine, Lucky Peach, and then, overwhelmed by work on this book, I let it drop to the bottom of my reading pile. Because this is not the kind of food magazine you flip through, tearing out recipes, [...]
On Cashews
November 28th, 2011by Caroline This quiet week after Thanksgiving and before the happy rush of Christmas events begins, Lisa and I are collating and copyediting the final manuscript of this anthology to submit to Shambhala. I haven’t read some of the essays in a while, and I love reading them all together, one after the other, and [...]
Fall Fruits & Cucumber Salad
November 21st, 2011by Caroline It’s not that often my kids come to the farmer’s market with me anymore. Our neighborhood market is Sunday morning, and it’s easier if I stock up in an early strike mission on my way home from a run, before the boys are even out of their pj’s. But we all went together [...]
In Which the Husband Saves the Day
November 18th, 2011by Caroline I had a little meltdown the other day. It had been a day in which various bad things and mistakes piled up, and when my kind, dinner-cooking husband asked if I wanted a stir fry for dinner, I didn’t take it well. We’ve been eating a lot of stir fry lately, but that [...]
The Seurat Burger
November 16th, 2011by Caroline My kids are incredibly lucky with the food at their school (it’s good enough that I go out of my way to volunteer in the lunch room) and their art program (let me know if you need a 2012 calendar…) but I’ve never seen the two come together. The other day, though, Eli [...]
A New Granola
November 14th, 2011by Caroline One of my longest cooking (and eating) rituals is granola; I’ve been making an adaptation of Nigella Lawson’s granola recipe from Feast for over 5 years now, and eating it every morning with some Trader Joe’s O’s and a sprinkling of dried cranberries. But when I spotted a tasty-looking recipe in the New [...]