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Summer = Tomatoes
Mom‘s birthday is just around the corner, and I knew two things when I started to blog this project: First, that I would launch the blog on the first of August as a birthday present to her; and...
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Follow Friday: Mark Bittman and NYT bread
The first time I ever heard of Mark Bittman (Twitter: @bittman), it was because of a simple bread recipe that was rapidly sweeping across all my cooking communities at the time, roughly late 2006. The...
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Perfect Pan Pizza
I don’t love pizza. I don’t hate it, either, but if I never had it again, I wouldn’t miss it. Thing is, when you’re the mom, you make pizza because everyone else likes pizza, and you try to make the...
View ArticleWeekend Cooking: Pandora’s Salted Angel’s Cake
[Welcome to the weekend! In our ramping up from three posts a week to eight, we'll be sharing some weekend cooking with you: stuff my mom would actually have cooked on a weeknight, because she liked...
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Weekend Cooking: Pandora’s Sweet Angel’s Cake
Yesterday, I showed you Pandora’s Salted Angel’s Cake. Today, here is the sweet version. It’s the very same method as yesterday’s bread, so do whichever one appeals to you more. The recipe is here, but...
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French Fridays with Dorie: Gougères
The first time I made cream puffs, I burned the bottoms. The second time I made cream puffs, I burned the bottoms. Then I bought some decent baking pans. Strangely, I don’t burn the bottoms of the...
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Mertie’s Mondays: Corn Muffins, not from a box
[Note from Serene: Once again, Chris brightens our Monday with a homey recipe he managed to find the ingredients for in the UK. A resourceful chap, our Chris.] My mom occasionally used to make...
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Mertie’s Mondays: It’s teatime—cut the banana bread
I think that I mentioned that my Mom was a great baker. However, there was one thing she never baked: anything with yeast in it. She never got the knack of kneading and baking, and she never tried. I...
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Let’s talk about stuffing
It’s all good. No, really. Stuff some stuff inside some other stuff, and I’m there. Stuffed peppers, chiles rellenos, dolmas… Stuff it and call me for dinner. I don’t know why it is, but I love...
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Mertie’s Mondays—Nearly Grammie’s Date Nut Bread
I believe that tea breads have somewhat gone out of fashion these days. Banana bread is the exception. Producing a loaf of fruit and nut bread suitable for an afternoon snack with coffee or tea just...
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Mertie’s Mondays: Blueberry Shortcake
Back in the 1950s fresh blueberries were only available in season. However, there were a ton of blueberry bushes in Marblehead. In back of the baseball diamond was a very steep hill, which soon turned...
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Focaccia with “treasures”
It’s no secret that I admire Lana from Bibberche—heck, I dedicated a whole post to her once—and it’s no secret that I love bread, so this week, when the two met in my kitchen (not literally, more’s the...
View ArticleBanana-pear Quickbread
I wish I’d taken photos of this bread, but it was gone so quickly! James expressed surprise that I took two slices of it while it was warm. I rarely want seconds of sweet stuff, but as I was eating the...
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Brother Food: Caesar Salad
My two younger brothers are awesome. They were great kids, and now they’re great husbands and dads, with beautiful wives, and eleven kids between them. Rick’s the older of the two. There was a...
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Garlic-herb Monkey Bread
I may have mentioned a few times here that my mom didn’t bake bread. That said, she LOVES the stuff, and every time she visits, I try to bake her favorite New York Times bread, and one or more other...
View ArticleBread, bread, bread
[Updated to add a bunch of stuff. Can't believe I forgot biscuits! Thanks, Piglet!] Bread. I know some of you don’t do bread, but for us, it’s a staple, and it’s also a way to keep the hearth in this...
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More baguette
Nothing perks up a bowl of canned soup like a homemade baguette. (I actually hated the soup, so I gave mine to James and had an extra serving of bread and butter instead. The sorrows of my life, let me...
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Pantry Cooking Project, Day 3
Growing up, our beverage choice at dinner was usually water or water. We drank a lot of water in our house. Sometimes there was juice or milk at breakfast or lunch, and in the summer, Country Time...
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