Archive for the 'comfort food' Category
Something Slow, Something New
February 1st, 2012By Lisa I’ve come to learn the hard way that it’s not a good idea to introduce new food on a weeknight, especially not after a long afternoon on the soccer field. When the kids sit down to eat at 6:40 (if we’re lucky) on Monday nights, it’s cold, it’s dark, they’re covered in turf [...]
Full Stop: Slow Cooker Red Sauce
January 25th, 2012By Lisa One of my resolutions this year is to do only One Thing At A Time. This is very, very hard for me. Somedays, when I have 12 things on my to-do list, including writing, teaching, errands, chores–it’s physically painful not to do that one extra thing. The commitment has meant, among other things, [...]
More Adventures in Slow Cooking: Swedish Meatballs
January 19th, 2012by Lisa Tuesday night I have a plan: Swedish Meatballs. I take the pork and beef out of the freezer just fine. Wednesday morning: I realize I have no onion, no potatoes. Kids say they will boycott Swedish meatballs if mashed potatoes aren’t involved. I have no plan B. Resolve to go to store. Later [...]
Pasta Factory
January 10th, 2012By Lisa Some people eat long noodles, other families eat blackeyed peas, but we have a pasta-making tradition on New Years Day. Actually, the tradition has been that I make the pasta and everyone else eats it. Mostly, I don’t mind. Mostly, I love making pasta the way other people love meditating, or running, [...]
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, [...]
Igloo Meatloaf
November 22nd, 2011By Lisa Last week, when I made this chive meatloaf, I made double. I rolled and froze the second batch, and took it out last night for a quick dinner. I baked it in our convection oven on the self-timer early in the day, around 3 pm. But I also had mashed potatoes left over, [...]
Fall Food
October 4th, 2011By Lisa And just like that, summer is over. We knew it was coming, but that definitive moment, when you look at a tomato and think, I’ve had enough had not yet come. But it always comes. At the height of summer, I think I can never get enough tomatoes, and then one day, I [...]
Quick Yeast Bread
October 3rd, 2011by Caroline We love bread. And while it is very easy, living in San Francisco, to buy a different kind of delicious bread every day, we love to make it, too. I learned by watching my mom make bread every week, and my kids are learning the same way. In fact, if I can send [...]
Goodbye to all that
September 29th, 2011By Lisa not much more al fresco dining Even though the temperatures here are still summerlike, and our markets are still full of piles of plums, rainbow swaths of tomatoes, giant bouquets of cilantro and basil, I am facing the end of summer and all that comes with it. This weekend, I will slow roast [...]
Variation on a Theme: End of Summer Pan Fried Gnocchi
September 15th, 2011by Lisa In some ways, the food blogging/writing world misleads us. If you believe everything you read, people out there are cooking new, interesting, fresh, inspired things all the time. On the one hand, this can inspire you and give you lots of new ideas, recipes, ingredients. The blogging world is great for that. On [...]