Archive for the 'cheese' Category
Homemade Ricotta Cheese
October 12th, 2011by Caroline Years ago, the summer between Tony’s and my marriage and my first pregnancy, we travelled in Italy with good friends, gorging on art and wine and food. In Bologna, we ate in a small restaurant that was dominated by a dark wood, marble-topped hutch. It held bowls of beautiful antipasti: roasted peppers, olives, [...]
Horseradish Cheddar Cheese Dip
September 17th, 2010by Lisa Caroline makes a fine garbage salad, and a long time ago, I started making a kind of garbage cheese dip. Like so much of what goes on around here, there is no single recipe but rather a set of strategies and tips. This is what you can do if friends stop in unexpectedly. [...]
Sweet Corn and Pepper Cheddar Pizza
August 30th, 2010by Lisa We make pizza often–close to once a week and usually on the grill, usually with more or less traditional italian toppings. But this pizza was one of those dishes that came together because of what we had on hand: 1/2 a red pepper, a few ears of corn, a bag of herbed pizza [...]
Farm Morning
May 18th, 2010by Caroline Henry James famously wrote that “summer afternoon” were the two most beautiful words in the English language, but to me, the words “farm breakfast” are equally sweet and evocative. They make me remember childhood Saturday mornings spent rereading Farmer Boy‘s descriptions of maple sugar pancake stacks, or my mom’s stories of summer mornings [...]
Scenes from a week of gourmet eating
August 27th, 2008posted by Caroline Even the local fish ate well: However, Eli always stuck to the familiar, alternating between two meals: pb&j and cereal with milk:
The Food (and friend!) that greeted us: a post about cheese
July 30th, 2008posted by Caroline In Paris, I was looking forward to meeting one of my long-time computer friends, Susannah Pabot, whom I met in an on-line writing class two years ago, and with whom I continue to exchange writing. The apartment we rented turned out, by great coincidence, to be only a short walk from her [...]