Posted in From Maria's Kitchen, tagged chestnut flour, food, polenta, recipe on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Feb. 1 — Update
I’m such a trend-setter. Over at the New York Times, they’re whipping up my chestnut polenta. Interesting to see the pros wrestling with the same questions I did. Where do you get chestnut flour? Do you eat those proscuitto ends from the ragu?
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This was supposed to be a post about the virtues [...]
Posted in From Maria's Kitchen, tagged banana bread, food, snow day on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And the great banana bread round-up
Once upon a time, in another life, when I read books and talked about them for a living, I worked under the benignly neglectful supervision of a self-consciously absent-minded professor (we’ll call him the AMP). The man was a work of art(ifice). He taught English; he smoked a pipe. [...]
Posted in From Shana's Kitchen, tagged baking, entertaining, food, holiday, salmon on January 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »
2009 will be a good cooking year for me if the past several weeks are any indication. I finally overcame a decade-long fear of baking with yeast, after a baking experiment gone terribly awry in an old boyfriend’s Red Hook apartment, and took the plunge with that No-Knead Bread everyone was talking about, well, forever [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m on my own this week, as Lenny has gone down to New Orleans to visit family (he’s been posting photos of oyster po-boys and such on his Facebook to make everyone jealous). In any event, that hasn’t stopped me from soothing my post-holiday/return-to-workweek blues with some good eating when I get home at night. [...]
Posted in From Maria's Kitchen, tagged A-16, ragu, recipe on January 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
John and I have spent time separately and together in San Francisco’s A-16 , a place that manages to combine warmth and trendiness and that has never disappointed. Shana and I also went there a while back and wallowed in burrata and grilled pizza with chili oil and a softly fried egg and a number [...]
Posted in The Joy of Not Cooking (Ann Arbor Take-out), tagged Community Farm Kitchen on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Community Farm of Ann Arbor’s affiliate, the Community Farm Kitchen (see my post from about a year ago), is introducing a new program this winter – the Community Farm Bakery. From Mary Wessel Walker, who runs the CFK:
“… sign up soon for the CFK Bakery, which will be running for the months of January [...]
Posted in Things Gastronomical, tagged food, gratitude, local, reflections on January 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Happy 2009! I hope your holidays were full of love and good cheer and delicious food. I know mine were. They have also been blessedly peaceful weeks, slow weeks, full of days that revolved around meal-planning and sharing food with family and friends whom I care deeply about. We break bread and pass the serving [...]
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