Other than awesome Italian guys, beautiful Italian women, and nice Italian food, Long Island is also known for its sweet corn. So when I got home to a 60-degrees-and-raining late June on Long Island, I knew that the perfect iteration of fresh corn would be in a sweet and spicy corn soup. I love a [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
Eggcellent Pie (Swish!)
What can I say about this pie? Well, one, it’s probably a quiche. I don’t really know why the recipe calls it an “egg-pie” other than to delight me, so I wouldn’t care if you called it a quiche. Or an egg custard or something. You can call it whatever you’d like, actually, if you [...]
June 22, 2009
Now you’re speaking my language
Now THIS is what I’m talking about, internet. This is the kind of recipe a girl like me can really get behind, philosophically speaking. Lemon curd, fresh blueberries, flaky tart crust. It’s all there, all wonderful, all working to return that sparkle to my baking eye.
And, it’s simple (relatively)! For some reason I was fretting [...]
June 21, 2009
Nuts for bananas, bananas for nuts, etc
I don’t know, readers. Why I do feel so meh about everything I’ve cooked as of late? Why does this banana bread not make me want to skip through the fields with wild flowers in my hand? What I’m trying to say here is that I feel like this past week I’ve been kinda going [...]
June 17, 2009
The reason I always make fruit cakes
Apparently I have been on a bit of a fruitcake kick as of late. I can’t deny it, nor do I regret it, nor do I feel like I should apologize for it. You try walking into the supermarket thinking “what should I bake this week?” and not leaving with a bag full of fruit [...]
June 14, 2009
Apricot it out
These are apriums.
They are different than pluots. They are 3/4 apricot and 1/4 plum. Pluots are 3/4 plum and 1/4 apricot. Can I be honest here? They look like apricots to me. They taste like apricots to me. I’m sure the farmers who worked very hard to bring me these hybrids aren’t very pleased with [...]
June 11, 2009
Strawberry cakes. NOT FOR DOGS.
I did not know it wasn’t clear that strawberry cakes are not for dogs. I was wrong. It was a point that needed to be clarified with my current charge, my sister’s dog, Zella. As my strawberry cake is to Trix, Zella is to that Silly Rabbit who is always trying to snag some. Trix [...]
June 8, 2009
Keeping up with the sconeses
There are times when I feel totally in control of myself, and then there are weeks like this past one. I’ve managed to 1) unnecessarily call the cops 2) fall off a fence, face-first 3) cut open my finger breaking down a butter box 3) break a glass while washing it, and 4) spill an [...]
June 4, 2009
New Noodles
I like a good pasta dish. I like a bad pasta dish. In fact, I’ve never met a pasta dish I didn’t like (with the possible exception of that one time I went out for Thai food and felt all ballsy and asked for “hot” spice on my noodles and bad, very bad things happened [...]
June 1, 2009
Happiness is a warm cookie in your heart
I don’t like to wax philosophical (too much) on this blog. For one, I don’t believe I have much additional wisdom to add to the pool of generally greeting-card-friendly and quotable collective wisdom of the internet. For two, I don’t believe that’s why people would ever come to this blog, because, well, see #1.
But today, [...]
