Posted in food on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
And we just picked up a baking stone, too. Very timely.
Ever make a batch of pizza dough, tip it out of the mixing bowl or bread machine, and have a semi-rectangular blob that completely refuses to be rearranged to anything resembling a circle? Here’s a tip we taught our line cooks in the restaurants I’ve [...]
Posted in books, family, food, miscellany on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, here we are, slowly getting back into a routine of sorts. School has resumed are our little lyceum, and I’ve come back to work for the remaining half of this week. If you’re going to leave off on a vacation, you might was well do it on a Wednesday.
So, then: a roundup of holiday [...]
Posted in food on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
From Twelve Months of Monastery Soups, by Br. Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette.
2 oz. butter or margarine
2 leeks or onions
4 medium-sized carrots
3 turnips
4 potatoes
half of a medium-sized head of white cabbage
1 tsp. salt (or more, according to taste)
4 qts. water
croutons
1/3 cup minced chervil
Wash and peel the vegetables, then slice into small pieces.
Melt the butter in a large soup [...]
Posted in food, photography on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Just uploaded a batch of pictures to the flickr account. Some of these go back a few weeks.
These are some yeast-risen cornbread muffins we made from a recipe at the wonderful 101 Cookbooks blog. They turned out lovely, and had that great leavened texture of white bread…but they were cornbread, which makes for a nifty [...]
Posted in food on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As mentioned in a prior post, we recently paid a visit to a favorite Japanese restaurant and I’ve been possessed with the idea of making miso soup at home ever since. Some are no doubt laughing at this notion - it’s not exactly a complex dish. Your biggest difficulty might be in locating a couple [...]
Posted in Homeschoolers, books, family, food on November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We paid a visit to our old haunts this past weekend, spending one day with each set of grandparents and another among dear friends on the occasion of a baptism. Good food was had by all concerned, and the children were most unwilling to return home. We comforted them, slightly, by reassuring them that we’d [...]
Posted in family, food on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
A cherry pie figured prominently in tonight’s bedtime story, which prompted requests for a pie. The three year old observed:
“I think mommy knows the recipe to it. Take cherries, and mix them until pie.”
So get cracking.
Posted in food on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We picked up a variety of gourds and whatnot over the weekend. Some for carving. Others for drying into birdhouses. These are edible.
They’re about the same size as the carvin’ pumpkins, but are a more subtle, delicate color. Admire them for a moment, because the way you prepare pumpkin puree is to whack them in [...]
Posted in food on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of a whole string of photos I finally got around to uploading into flickr. This (the bread) is one of the latest King Arthur projects: crusty Italian bread. It was delicious as it looks. The wine is Three Buck Chuck. Alas, we must smuggle it back with us whenever we return to Atlanta, for [...]
Posted in family, food, miscellany on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
That guy looks pretty busy, doesn’t he?
Good heavens, I need to get back on the ball with this blogging thing.
Full weekend: we had visiting grandparents, piano recitals for two (2), Scout day at the local college football game and several failed attempts to get kites aloft. The weather was fine, and now it’s raining, which [...]
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