Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, fruit, nuts, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Aug 17th, 2010
I finally admitted defeat this weekend. For the first time this year, I bought bread. I also bought pre-chopped vegetables, hummus, and pre-washed lettuce. Why do I force myself to do all these things from scratch? Preparing my snacks and lunches for the work week has been seriously cutting into my favorite Sunday activity (sitting [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, nuts, quick bread on Aug 7th, 2010
Conversely, I think I’d like bananas more if they weren’t so cheap, convenient, and healthy. It’s just that I eat so many bananas. For years, every weekday, a banana. I had to start mixing the bananas with other things to make them palatable. In the spring, strawberries make a wonderful accompaniment. And if I want [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, quick bread, whole grains on Jul 11th, 2010
Every time I want to make pancakes, I have to look up my pumpkin pancake recipe and mentally subtract out the pumpkin and fall spices. It’s about time I made my basic pancake recipe more accessible. The thing about pancakes is that there are a lot of less-than-perfect recipes. Trust me, I’ve tried a lot [...]
Posted in dessert, fruit, quick bread, spring, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 7th, 2010
Dave and I ate dessert first this weekend, but not in the fun-loving, live life to its fullest, carefree kind of way. More in the ‘it’s too hot outside to grill dinner until the sun goes down’ kind of way. 110 degrees, people. I told you I live in the desert. But whatever, I got [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 20th, 2010
I was all set to make the tiniest portion of this recipe and serve little bitty biscuits with salad for dinner. And then Dorie mentioned ham sandwiches in the headnote and I started thinking about adding eggs and cheese to that and suddenly I was making extra dough to freeze. Breakfast sandwiches are on my [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, healthy, quick bread, whole grains on Mar 21st, 2010
Epicurious reviewers get a lot of flack for their “I made 8 million changes to the recipe and hated it” habit, but in general, I find them completely awesome. Without their unequivocal positive reviews, I wouldn’t have chosen this recipe at all, or I at least would have modified it. I started to have doubts [...]
Posted in cheese, eggs, mexican, quick bread, vegetables, vegetarian on Mar 13th, 2010
After buying four and a half pounds of masa harina for a recipe that used, oh, about a cup of it, I completely messed up the recipe I was making. While I learned quite a bit about the chemistry of cooking beans (hint: don’t add tomatoes at the beginning), I have a feeling I won’t [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, quick bread, whole grains on Feb 2nd, 2010
Dave gets a man magazine – not one with naked ladies, but one about fashion and supposedly culture and, I don’t know, other manly stuff. I know he’ll insist that I clarify that he doesn’t pay for it. Anyway, the last issue had an article about getting in shape in which the author claims that [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fruit, quick bread, whole grains on Jan 31st, 2010
I must be growing up. Since when do I like raisins? At least I still think green peppers are blech. If that ever changes, I know I’ll be ready to pick up my cane and trade in my real teeth for the kind you take out at night to clean. Oh, and buy one of [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 25th, 2010
I made these, oh, a year and a half ago. And the file’s just been sitting around waiting for someone to choose them for Tuesdays with Dorie. Actually, it was the first recipe I ever made from Dorie Greenspan that was not specifically for TWD. I had told myself that I would only bake from [...]
