Archive for the 'recipes' Category
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 [...]
Three Chocolate Cakes
July 19th, 2011by Caroline We’ve been feeling pretty celebratory around here since learning the terrific news that Shambhala Publications/Roost Books will publish our anthology, The Dish: Making the Meals that Make Your Family. It seems an appropriate time to give you a big cake bonanza: three recipes! all for chocolate cake! I hesitated briefly because I don’t [...]
Super-decadent No-Bake Fudge Brownies
July 6th, 2011by Caroline I may never bake another brownie again. Oh, I will certainly make brownies, but now I’ve found a recipe that rivals even the one I discovered in Kate Moses’ gorgeous memoir-with-recipes, Cakewalk, the brownie recipe I said — oh, less than two months ago — was the last brownie recipe you would ever [...]
First Honey Ice Cream, then Chocolate Cake
June 18th, 2011by Caroline After making the honey ice cream the other day, I had 6 egg whites left over. I could have made an egg white omelette, I suppose, but that’s not really my style. This is more my style: This recipe is similar — in look and execution — to Lisa’s chocolate roulade, though her [...]
Honey Ice Cream
June 16th, 2011by Caroline I am learning — slowly — that while San Francisco doesn’t offer the summer weather I grew up with (and long for) when school lets out each year, there are ways to compensate for that. Here at home it may be 60 degrees, with fog swirling in the street and a wind so [...]