Archive for the 'recipes' Category
Warm Escarole Salad with Apples and Nuts (Success!)
September 26th, 2011by Caroline As Tolstoy didn’t write, easygoing eaters are all the same; every picky eater is picky in his or her own way. So I was reminded the other night when I unpacked our CSA share and pulled out a bunch of escarole bigger than my head: “Yum!” said Ben. “What’s that?” Can we just [...]
Ella’s Grilled Salmon Back Sandwich
September 22nd, 2011By Lisa Salmon Backs are a seasonal favorite around here. If salmon is in season, we’re sure to eat this cut of the fish nearly once a week. It’s fast, flavorful, and really economical. I can’t afford to keep my family in salmon filets or steaks, but I can afford to feed them piles of [...]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
September 19th, 2011by Caroline A friend of mine reviews reviews for websites; you read that right: if you write a product review of an item you buy online, chances are she or one of her colleagues will vet your review before it is published, checking for inappropriate language, slander, and other no-no’s. But even acceptable reviews are [...]
What I did
September 11th, 2011By Lisa “Back home, Kory turned on the TV, but I could no longer watch. For the rest of the afternoon I stood at the kitchen table mixing eggs and flour in a rhythmic circle, gathering the dough into small round balls, In the background the new was insistent. Arms dusted in flour, I kneaded [...]
BLT Pasta
September 9th, 2011By Lisa Last summer, I never pulled up our tomato plants. We had 3 or 4 plants in the ground–Sweet 100s, SunGolds–delicious little bites of summer, that bore fruit until October. (It’s like that here, please don’t hate us.) And then we got busy, and it started to rain, and we spent most weekends at [...]
Lemony Zucchini Carpaccio
September 8th, 2011by Caroline When Tony and I were first dating, we used to eat at a wonderfully low-key Italian place, Jackson Fillmore, with the most delicious zucchini carpaccio, light and fresh with parmesan, toasted almonds and parsley. We’ve tried to replicate it a number of times but never quite gotten it right. So when this recipe [...]
Extra Easy Peach Tart
September 1st, 2011by Caroline The last time I saw my friend Yuka, Ben was just a few months old. He’d been crying all day when she arrived, stopped for the length of her visit, and then started back up again when she left. Frankly, it made me feel like crying, too. After the earthquake and tsunami last [...]
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake
August 29th, 2011by Caroline Whenever members of my family get together, we eat, and if we’re going to be visiting each other for a few days, we count up the meals in advance and start planning what we’ll cook and eat together (we have already, despite having more important things to do, begun emailing a little bit [...]
Nemesis Foods
August 26th, 2011by Caroline A year or so ago, we had a funny dinner table conversation about our “nemesis foods:” the things we really, really don’t like to eat but occasionally must to be polite. Ben’s is chili; Eli’s is sauteed spinach; mine is sweet potato casserole (the kind with marshmallows on top [shudder]). Tony’s is something [...]
Fresh Corn Pancakes
August 24th, 2011by Caroline When my husband and I decided to get married, I told him I could imagine making a life in his native San Francisco as long as we spent one week every summer somewhere I wouldn’t need to wear a scarf. That means, happily, an August week in Northwest Connecticut, visiting my parents, and [...]