Our sincerest Thanksgiving wishes to all.
I’m in hog heaven at this moment – and have been for the past day – and will be for the next as well. And what’s responsible for this? Well, each Thanksgiving, it’s my province to take over the kitchen, plan a meal of at least 5 courses, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Great Thanksgiving Trauma – Gravy Anxiety!
Posted in Food, Our Favorite Dishes, tagged gravy, gravy anxiety, stock, stock pot, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
America’s Food Secrets #8, Vermont Feather Beds
Posted in America's Food Secrets, baking, tagged America's Food Secrets, Edmund Dulac, feather beds, sourdough batter muffins, The Federated Women's Clubs of America, Vermont Feather Beds, yeasted batter muffins on November 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There were two things that my sister and I liked about going to our grandmother’s house in Delaware – and they may have been the only things we liked about it – one was the fact my Gramma Warren (I never remember hearing her first name, my mother simply called her, Mom, or to us, [...]
Pierre Nury’s French Rye Ciabatta
Posted in Food, baking, tagged ciabatta, Daniel Leader, firm levain, Local Breads, Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, Pierre Nury, rustic light rye, The Fresh Loaf, wet doughs, zolablue on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I did a Daniel Leader bread, Raisin Pumpernickel, to be specific. And recently, I was popping around on The Fresh Loaf and I found another Leader bread, this one Pierre Nury’s Rustic Auvergne Light Rye, which is one of the breads out of Leader’s newest book, Local Breads. Nury [...]
Let’s Celebrate Autumn
Posted in Food, baking, tagged autumn, basic sourdough loaf, French toast, local foods, mushroom bread, mushrooms, roasted mushrooms, seasonal foods, sourdough on November 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
If you live in the U.S., anywhere in the U.S., there is a season when all normal activity takes a timeout to make room for that special local something that’s about to come into season – some lucky areas have dozens of special “seasons”, some only a few – but no matter where you reside, [...]
