If you read the Fruitcake Bread Pudding post, you already know that I hate to waste, and that, to avoid wasting an ingredient, I’ll make something I don’t need. I bought way too much heavy cream this year. I have one cookie recipe that calls for two tablespoons of heavy cream. That’s it – two […]
I hate to waste. I blame/credit my mother. I do not have any memory of ever throwing out food at my childhood home. Every now and then some milk would go sour, and even then, rather than just dumping the sour milk, we would find a recipe for it, usually a sour milk chocolate cake. […]
We will get back to regional Italy shortly, but the Meyer lemons have remained on sale, so I have been working on perfecting Meyer lemon curd. Perfection is, of course, subjective in this case. Meyer lemons – not really lemons at all – are sweeter than actual lemons. And I like citrus recipes to be […]
When I started this blog a little more than a year ago, I intended to “visit” every region of Italy through its food, ideally in a way that made sense geographically to fit with my sense of order. If you have been following from the beginning, you know I got distracted along the way. I […]
If you are still with me after the last two posts, you know all about my snowflake obsession. Various vendors contributed to the madness this year with new snowflake pan offerings including this “cakelet” pan from Le Creuset – https://www.lecreuset.com/snowflake-cakelet-pan/MB301S.html. I’m just going to call them cupcakes from this point. Admittedly, I can be tempted […]
I love snow. I much prefer winter to summer, snow to sand. I understand that these are not particularly popular opinions, but I will take 28° F over 98° F any day. Love of winter led to a love of skiing, and I have had the good fortune of being able to ski in some […]