Posted in chicken, freezer friendly on Jan 30th, 2009
My sister does once-a-month-cooking, so once each month (or a little longer), she and her husband spend a good portion of the weekend stocking their freezer with easily-reheatable food. I don’t think I’m cut out for this. For one thing, when she was planning her last cooking fest, I advised her to split [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Jan 28th, 2009
Ah, my sad little gingerbread photos. I had some issues with a tiny step in this recipe that I normally would have just ignored. “Butter the pan.” Pshaw, who butters their pans these days? Nonstick spray, baby!
Since I needed 7⅓ tablespoons of butter for the portion of the recipe that I [...]
Posted in appetizers, dips, gluten free, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian on Jan 23rd, 2009
I don’t blame Tuesdays with Dorie for my pants being too tight to button by the end of 2008. I blame unemployment. Instead of grabbing my standard healthy snacks and eating them at work because they were the only food available, I would pass over the bananas and carrots at home and fill up on [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fruit, spring, summer, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 21st, 2009
I’ve been a member of Tuesdays with Dorie for ten months, and I haven’t missed even one week. I’ve posted through holidays, vacations, and…I’m trying to come up with a third thing to round out this sentence, but honestly, I have no life. Hence it’s been easy to stay on track with TWD. [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, one pot meal, potatoes, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jan 18th, 2009
I think every food blogger recognizes that there are copyright issues with what we do. Very few of us have only original recipes on our blogs, which means the recipes we publish are from other sources – sources who would prefer that people pay money for their recipes instead of stumbling upon them in [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 16th, 2009
Like a lot of Tuesdays with Dorie members who joined the group late, I plan on eventually making all of the recipes that I missed. Why not? I make those thirteen recipes (down to nine, now), and I will eventually have baked through the entire book. How cool is that?
There were just [...]
Posted in bread, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie, vegetables on Jan 13th, 2009
Obviously I like baking desserts along with the Tuesdays with Dorie group every week, but you know what else I like? Every once in a while, it’s fun to choose my own dessert. Revolutionary, I know. I always get excited when I see a savory recipe chosen for TWD, because that leaves [...]
Posted in favorites, gluten free, healthy, salad, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jan 11th, 2009
Last month, I was looking at pictures with my 2-year-old nephew, and when we came to a picture of my sister when she was six months pregnant, he pointed to her and said, “That’s Aunt Bridget!” Wow, thanks buddy. I know my pants fit kind of tight lately, but at least they’re size-six pants!
So [...]
This is the third time I’ve tried to photograph this so I could blog about it. The first time was over a year ago when I didn’t know how to use my hand-me-down point-and-shoot camera. The photos are either yellow or they’re unevenly lit, and there’s a bunch of distracting stuff in the [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, french, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 6th, 2009
This tart had everything going against it. For one thing, I wasn’t in the mood to make a three-part dessert. For another, Dorie says that it’s supposed to be eaten the day it’s assembled, and I had my doubts that Dave and I would be eating the whole thing in one day. [...]
