Archive for the 'Lisa' Category
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, [...]
Horseradish Cheddar Fondue
January 5th, 2012By Lisa If you ask my kids, they will tell you their favorite restaurant is the Melting Pot, a chain of fondue restaurants. Everything I wrote almost exactly one year ago remains true. Yet in spite of the price, we have eaten there three times this year. We didn’t anticipate that our promise to celebrate [...]
St. Lucia Buns
December 13th, 2011by Lisa I’ll bet you didn’t know that today is St. Lucy’s Day. And that it is also my daughter’s half-birthday. And that her still-beloved American Girl doll, Kirsten, hails from Sweden, where St. Lucy is pretty much the only saint honored. If you’ve read my book, you also might know that we nearly named [...]
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, [...]
Walnuts
November 17th, 2011By Lisa One of the contributors to our book, which is just a few weeks away from being sent to the publisher (!), is Jeff Gordinier. He’s written for a lot of places, but these days he makes his home at the Dining Section of the New York Times. He recently sent me a link [...]
Chive Meatloaf
November 15th, 2011by Lisa As Caroline and I are readying our book for the publisher, we are more than usually pressed for time, facing deadlines, making decisions, and still taking care of the kids, the field trips, the soccer tournaments, the homework….Suffice to say, dinner has been put under pressure, too, and I often feel like I’m [...]
Bucatini with pork and fennel ragu
November 8th, 2011by Lisa One thing Caroline & I are discovering as we are doing the final pass on the edits for our book, is just how important mothers are when it comes to the food we eat as children. It seems there is a mother, somewhere, for better and for worse, at heart of all the [...]
Pumpkins We Have Known
October 28th, 2011by Lisa Just like that, it’s fall. We have dark nights and cold mornings and no one is thinking twice about summer, the only relic of which are few jars of super sweet, oven roasted cherry tomotoes from the garden. With roasted garlic, they taste like fall. Now we are feasting on pumpkins and snacking [...]