23 May 2012

Sweet and Spicy Chicken with Pea Pods

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I have been a bad poster of late and for this I am sorry. C pointed it out recently when I was at her house eating amazing ribs (and thinking  "hey, why don't I ever make barbecue?"). More than a few others have pointed it out too. So what happened? First work got busy. Then  it got really slow and I had time to do other things unrelated to cooking. Then it got busy again. Then slow. Then busy. And then I went a little insane and just wanted to do nothing and certainly not cook.

Add in that we've had a few nice, warm, sunny days in the mix, and being at home, cooped up inside, cooking in a hot kitchen didn't really appeal for a while.

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3 May 2012

Chicken with Blackberry Sauce

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I'm sorry to say that I jinxed us all with my euphoria about ramps. I was so happy that spring was finally here, you know, as far as the plants were telling me, that I basically forgot to check on the actual weather. Newsflash team: it maybe isn't spring yet.

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1 May 2012

Ramps Cooked in Butter

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I have been very bad at posting recipes lately. First, work got really busy and I all but stopped getting home in time to make dinners. Then weekends got really busy and I stopped having as much time to noodle around in the kitchen. Then I just got lazy and ran out of good ideas. Nothing I was making was anywhere near interesting enough to share with you.

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10 Apr 2012

Matzoh Balls

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On Thursday I had my biscuits and bade farewell to bread for a week. Friday I went over to my parent's house for Seder, which was a bit of an extravaganza. We had tables set up stretching from the dining room all the way into the living room, set for 25 people, prepared for a meal with five courses.

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5 Apr 2012

Honey Cream Biscuits

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Tomorrow, Friday, is the beginning of Passover this year. I have a mixed relationship with this particular holiday. On the one hand, it is about justice and community - both important things in my book. On the other hand, it is a week without bread or pasta. This has become less onerous as I've gotten older and cook more for myself, but it's still obnoxious.

Deprivations aside, though, Passover is a holiday thoroughly about food: there are ritual foods that you are required to eat, forbidden foods that you may not eat, and, in every family, traditional foods that you always eat. The requirements are largely good (i.e. matzoh ball soup), but even as an adult, the forbidden foods are a real bummer.  No bread, no pasta, really no delicious carbs in general. And this, friends, is bad.

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3 Apr 2012

Lamb Patties

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Hello, friends. It's been a while. The past couple weeks I have been doing far more eating than cooking. Ben and I took a trip to Chicago for a few days. Chicago, where, in the days before we left, it had been sunny and eighty degrees. When we got there, of course, it was decidedly more rainy.

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20 Mar 2012

Orange Banana Brown-Butter Waffles

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I have been on a waffle kick for weeks. Perhaps months. On any given weekend these days, if you'd asked me what I wanted to do for brunch, the answer would have been "get waffles". With not even a little hesitation. I have no idea where this waffle mood came from, but it is here. I have some level of restraint and ability to act like a grown up, though, so I haven't actually been eating waffles non-stop for the past few months. But on a recent weekend, with some time on my hands, that was what I was making.

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15 Mar 2012

Saffron Couscous with Baby Vegetables

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Ben and I have our first wedding anniversary coming up in a little over a week and everyone else seems a little more excited about it than I am. It's not that it's not a big milestone. We've just been together a really. long. time. We started dating nine years ago, so if we ever had a period akin to what others seem to have as newlyweds, it must have been back sometime in the 2004-2006 range. By 2007 I'm pretty sure we were into old married couple territory.

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6 Mar 2012

Winter Vegetable Soup

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Usually, in the winter, I am a soup machine. I make onion soup, vegetable soup, chicken noodle soup, tomato soup. Soup is the working woman's best friend: you can make a big batch of it on the weekend, heat it up for dinners at night, bring it to work for lunch, or freeze it for later. But this winter, thanks to our global-warming-induced weather patterns, it's been 50 degrees during what are supposed to be the deepest, darkest, coldest days of winter, I haven't exactly been in a soup mood.

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1 Mar 2012

Mushroom Tarts

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Last night I watched the Top Chef finale. I won't tell you who won or really any spoilers at all, except that Barbara Lynch showed up. I think she is just so bad-ass. In the episode, she gets put into a quick fire challenge and rocks it. Unsurprising. Everything I've ever tasted at one of her restaurants has been delicious and she makes places where it is fun to eat, where neither the food nor the décor is overly ornamental or stuffy. There is nothing bad about being in a Barbara Lynch restaurant.

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There's something about 8:30. It is the magical time at which dinner is ready, no matter what I do. Start cooking at 6? Dinner's at 8:30. Start at 8? Dinner's still at 8:30. I no longer question it. I inherited 8:30 from my mother, along with enough of her cooking skills that it seems like a fair trade. I also rarely measure my ingredients, but I've done my best for you here. Feel free to improvise.

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