I couldn’t find the picture that goes with these incredible brownies, so I figured a photo of Izzy looking mischievious in a surgical cap would substitute well. She is brown, in places. And homemade, technically. She looks a little here like Lucille Ball in the famous chocolate factory I Love Lucy episode, one of the […]
Tag: bake this day our daily bread
Brazilian Seafood Stew
It’s happening. Spring. KP and I contributed to the destruction of winter this morning by lacing our feet with YakTraks (like tire chains, but for shoes) and stomping onto every edge of ice we encountered on Bear Creek Trail. Then we came home and took bats to the icicles dripping from our gutters. This week […]
Campagnolo
Bran betters things, in my experience. It aids digestion, adds some extra vitamins to a loaf of bread, and yet it doesn’t weigh the bread down like a heavy wheat flour. This bread has a lovely balance—it is robust and delicate at once. Went great as toast to accompany all the weird international soups I’ve […]
Chipotle Garlic Edamame and Fire
Let my misadventure yesterday with a fire extinguisher, Not A Drill, prompt you now to go find the red canister where you are and thoroughly visualize Pulling the pin, Aiming while standing six feet away, and Spraying while Sweeping Side to side (PASS). Why? Because an enormous flame rising from a pot of greasy chili […]
Happy Mardi Gras Red Beans and Rice
Happy Mardi Gras! Maybe next year I can convince Rochester to hold a second line parade on this important New Orleans feast day. Otherwise I gotta get me back to my Mondo Kayo. A wonderful friend sent me a post card with a quotation from Chris Rose on what Mardi Gras means… …”It is annual […]
Pane di Chiavari
It is Lundi Gras, the eve of Fat Tuesday, and somewhere up North, two ex-New Orleanians huddle together with their bulldog for warmth and fortitude on yet another brutal subzero morning. That’s enough complaining for Monday. Izzy protested our not going to New Orleans this year, first Mardi Gras we’ve missed in seven years, by […]
A Bulldog’s Birthday and Stranger #2 with Chicken Milanese
So our second dinner with strangers per my New Years Resolution was a sly attempt to lure people to our house to celebrate Izzy’s fifth birthday. Our strangers were two couples from our church who were all rather surprised at the fanfare KP and I orchestrate on behalf of our bulldog. “How does Izzy know […]
Project Yogurt and Unintended Project Cheese
Why yes, I have recolonized my gastrointestinal tract, and likely my genitourinary tract as well, thanks for asking. Project Yogurt Notes on a first attempt to make my own bacteria-ridden milk product. Follow me to my Petrie dish of flavor. I started with 4 cups of 2% milk, which I boiled in a high-edged saucepan […]
Shakshuka with Fennel and Feta
Fennel is a vegetable of mystery. I privately harbor the suspicion that thousands of them escaped the set of Toy Story only to hide among cabbages and watercress in your local supermarket. I needed one to play in the kitchen as a guitar, practicing for my Mardi Gras gigs this weekend at Tonic and Rochester […]
Pane alle Olive, or Olive Sochi
Izzy loved the Olympics. Given the weather here in Minnesota, I think Izzy thought she was actually in Sochi, watching curling and ice dancing, gathering olives that fell to the floor like flowers after a gold medal-worthy nap. I will admit that Izzy does more impressive moves in one nap than a freestyle snowboarder completes […]