Dear reader, I hope you’re having a fantastic Christmas holiday! I know mine has been packed full of family visits, shopping, games, and general holiday cheer. Of course, I’ve been scarfing down tons of delicous food. May I enumerate my holiday consumption over the last week or so? Things made: Gingerbread Shortbread Thumbprint cookies Eatmore [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Christmas feasting
Posted in Words with recipes, tagged Eating together on December 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Dear Nick
Posted in Words worth eating, tagged Baked goods on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Dear Nick, Every year I say to myself, “This year will be the year that I write early to Nick! We will develop an extended correspondence that is worthy of being memorialized in storybooks everywhere. Our epistolary repartee will be, in turns, charming, witty, heartfelt, and occasionally nostalgic.” And every year, without fail, you get [...]
Bon Appetit
Posted in Words worth eating, tagged Dinner on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week’s impressive dinner: Note: be sure to use a creamy blue cheese, not a strong one! I unwittingly used a strong blue cheese and it killed my tastebuds and sinuses, despite using less than an ounce of cheese (the original recipe calls for about 3 oz. per serving). Rosenborg Extra-Creamy Danish Blue Cheese is [...]
In defense of Martha
Posted in Words worth eating on December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Poor Martha. Around this time of the year, for the last half-dozen years or so, lazy columnists and storywriters everywhere start to dump on Martha. In fact, entire magazines are (arguably) founded on the anti-Martha movement. If Martha stands for domestic perfection, the anti-Martha stands for the conscious effort to be imperfect, time-efficient, and above [...]
