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Caviar and CodfishCaviar and CodfishMy daily life in food. With a little wit, a nutty boyfriend, and a dog named Champ. Recipes with every post. Articles
Intensely Bittersweet Chocolate Soufflés
2008-02-11 22:37:00 Since Valentine’s Day is smack in the middle of the week, Jim and I decided to begin celebrating it early this year, by having a wonderful chocolate dessert on Saturday night. Silly as it seems, I was uneasy about making anything with bittersweet chocolate. You see, there’s nothing bittersweet about our relationship. We are young ... More About: Baking , Food , Holiday , Recipe , Dessert
Superbowl Coq au Vin
2008-02-08 00:41:00 There are a good many Americans who enjoy their football. I’m not one of them. I do, however, enjoy being stuffed to the gils in the name of celebration—every chance I get. And there’s always the commercials. I agreed to watch football with Jim on Sunday (our first football-watching together—Jim’s more a basketball ... More About: Cooking , Food , Poultry , Comfort food , Superbowl
Superbowl Coq au Vin
2008-02-08 00:41:00 There are a good many Americans who enjoy their football. I’m not one of them. I do, however, enjoy being stuffed to the gils in the name of celebration—every chance I get. And there’s always the commercials. I agreed to watch football with Jim on Sunday (our first football-watching together—Jim’s more a basketball ... More About: Cooking , Food , Poultry , Comfort food , Superbowl
Hearty Fish Soup with Cider, Leeks, and Mushrooms
2008-02-04 21:03:00 I don’t know what I find so funny about fish heads but, well, I think most of the prep I did for this soup involved me holding the fish heads up in front of my face, giggling and pretending that they were speaking to me in funny voices. I was literally laughing out loud, ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Fish , Mushrooms
Hearty Fish Soup with Cider, Leeks, and Mushrooms
2008-02-04 21:03:00 I don’t know what I find so funny about fish heads but, well, I think most of the prep I did for this soup involved me holding the fish heads up in front of my face, giggling and pretending that they were speaking to me in funny voices. I was literally laughing out loud, ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Fish , Mushrooms
Bean Pie!
2008-01-31 03:28:00 I keep a mental list of foods I want to create at some point in my life. This is not an organized list, mind you, and it’s rather unrealistic and full of food-snobbery. It mostly contains intricate recipes with far-out ingredients, recipes that would take way too much time and money to ever ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Bean , Comfort food
Bean Pie!
2008-01-31 03:28:00 I keep a mental list of foods I want to create at some point in my life. This is not an organized list, mind you, and it’s rather unrealistic and full of food-snobbery. It mostly contains intricate recipes with far-out ingredients, recipes that would take way too much time and money to ever ... More About: Cooking , Vegetarian , Food , Recipe , Bean
Baked Eggs with Polenta with, of course, bacon
2008-01-25 22:23:00 I used to think eating runny eggs was akin to slurping up snot. I was disgusted at “birdies in a nest” and couldn’t stand the sight of a half-cooked yolk breaking open and spilling all over the bread. I wouldn’t touch it. I preferred my eggs as firm omelets or hard-boiled. ... More About: Cooking , Food , Baked , Recipe , Eggs
Baked Eggs with Polenta with, of course, bacon
2008-01-25 22:23:00 I used to think eating runny eggs was akin to slurping up snot. I was disgusted at “birdies in a nest” and couldn’t stand the sight of a half-cooked yolk breaking open and spilling all over the bread. I wouldn’t touch it. I preferred my eggs as firm omelets or hard-boiled. ... More About: Cooking , Vegetarian , Food , Baked , Recipe
Chestnut Soup
2008-01-23 17:38:00 I’m not sure if these chestnuts were roasted on an open fire and frankly I do not care. My doctor advised me to start getting up and walking around a little. I’m sure that shelling chestnuts is not an activity he has in mind. But soup-making, especially when it involves little more ... More About: Cooking , Food , Vegetables , Recipe , Soup
Chestnut Soup
2008-01-23 17:38:00 I’m not sure if these chestnuts were roasted on an open fire and frankly I do not care. My doctor advised me to start getting up and walking around a little. I’m sure that shelling chestnuts is not an activity he has in mind. But soup-making, especially when it involves little more ... More About: Cooking , Food , Vegetables , Recipe , Soup
Dulce de Leche
2008-01-21 22:09:00 When you can’t get off the couch, when anything but a horizontal position sends shooting pains to your feet and knees, when you are so angry about the pain that you get up, sure that you are better, and proven wrong, need to be carried back to bed by your boyfriend, when this happens, there’s ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Dessert , Sweet
Dulce de Leche
2008-01-21 22:09:00 When you can’t get off the couch, when anything but a horizontal position sends shooting pains to your feet and knees, when you are so angry about the pain that you get up, sure that you are better, and proven wrong, need to be carried back to bed by your boyfriend, when this happens, there’s ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Dessert , Sweet
Quiche for the Blues
2008-01-18 22:43:00 Normally I wouldn’t turn to any food in particular for comfort. The term “comfort food” to me means wintry or warming, not something that I would literally need to eat in trying times. I do like to eat—or pig-out—when I’m down and out, but in those times I’m not picky and will eat ... More About: Food , Vegetables , Blues , Recipe , Comfort food
Quiche for the Blues
2008-01-18 22:43:00 Normally I wouldn’t turn to any food in particular for comfort. The term “comfort food” to me means wintry or warming, not something that I would literally need to eat in trying times. I do like to eat—or pig-out—when I’m down and out, but in those times I’m not picky and will eat ... More About: Vegetarian , Food , Vegetables , Blues , Recipe
Car Accidents and Winter Squash Soup
2008-01-17 18:42:00 Before I begin my post, I’d like to introduce my blogging buddy Deborah, from Taste and Tell. We got paired up in the Adopt-a-Blogger event and I couldn’t be happier. In the “about me” section of her blog, the first sentence reads “I am not a food snob. I just love to ... More About: Cooking , Food , Vegetables , Winter , Recipe
Car Accidents and Winter Squash Soup
2008-01-17 18:42:00 Before I begin my post, I’d like to introduce my blogging buddy Deborah, from Taste and Tell. We got paired up in the Adopt-a-Blogger event and I couldn’t be happier. In the “about me” section of her blog, the first sentence reads “I am not a food snob. I just love to ... More About: Cooking , Vegetarian , Food , Vegetables , Winter
There Will Be Blood Oranges
2008-01-13 21:21:00 I like to keep this food blog about food and just that. I don’t like to bring too much of my other interests into it—I don’t talk *much* about my favorite TV shows, authors, or political candidates. You came to see what’s cooking and I respect that. But, sometimes I experience something that’s ... More About: Cooking , Food , Meat , Recipe , Pork
Fresh from a Slump
2008-01-11 00:10:00 I hit a slump last week. I had been on a high since Christmas. I got some compliments on my homemade gifts, and I got to make dinner for my family. I was on a roll with some delicious soups. I even sold my first chutney! Then I ... More About: Cooking , Food , Meat , Recipe , Comfort food
Buon Viaggio Risotto
2008-01-07 23:12:00 My younger sister leaves for a semester abroad in Florence tomorrow—and although I may be a smidgen jealous—I’m bowled-over excited and happy for her. As an older sister, I still think of Kathy as a little baby, and something about her getting on a plane to fly thousands of miles away, all by herself, ... More About: Family , Vegetarian , Food , Comfort food , Risotto
Hoppin? John Soup for Good Luck
2008-01-06 17:44:00 I have to admit it, when I first heard that Hoppin’ John was eaten on New Year’s throughout the American South for good luck, I thought it was preposterous. Firstly, the idea that collard greens will bring you good fortune sounds about as senseless to me as owning a money tree plant, (though, come ... More About: Food , Holiday , Vegetables , Meat
$30.00 Baked Potatoes: Truffled Potatoes on a Bed of Sea Salt
2008-01-04 02:39:00 Celebrating doesn’t have to include going out. Some of my favorite celebrations go on in my lil’ old apartment, with my boyfriend, my dog, and maybe a game of Scrabble. Celebration dinners, as well, don’t need to be had in fancy restaurants, where you leave satisfied, but with the urge to keep telling yourself, ... More About: Life , Cooking , Food , Holiday , Vegetables
French Onion Soup
2008-01-01 18:02:00 If you are trying to impress me, I’d have to warn you against serving French Onion Soup. I am picky about this soup. It’s one of my favorites, but I’d need 10 hands to count the number of times I’ve been disappointed by it. I used to order French Onion Soup at ... More About: Cooking , Vegetarian , Vegetables , Recipe
Leek & Cauliflower Soup
2007-12-30 23:48:00 When Jim and I first started dating, he once told me he didn’t like soup—he just wasn’t a soup-guy. For a split second I thought to myself maybe I need to reconsider getting serious with this mope—in my head sprung images of winters to come, with icy snow tapping on the shivering windowpanes and ... More About: Life , Vegetarian , Vegetables , Diet , Soup
Cider-brined Pork Chops with Creamed Leeks and Apples
2007-12-27 21:07:00 Christmas is over, but Jim and I have a whole week of vacation left. A whole week of reading, cooking, eating, cuddling, and movie-watching. A whole week of anything we want. A whole week of nothing. That’s not to say that Christmas was not what we wanted—anything but. This Christmas was one of the happiest ... More About: Cooking , Holiday , Vegetables , Meat , Recipe
Happy Holidays! Chocolate Chip Cookies Worthy of Angels
2007-12-23 16:52:00 I’ve been thinking about angels a lot lately. Jim and I recently finished watching the HBO series of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and it’s the type of film that stays with you for a while after it ends. The play, set in New York City during the 80’s, focuses around Prior ... More About: Holidays , Life , Living , Cooking , Holiday
Daring Bakers Challenge: Yule Log
2007-12-22 19:52:00 I’m not sure how my caterpillar has survived the cold winter. I mean, the tree didn’t even make it, falling down to become a mushroom-covered log. Maybe it was the super-large size that helped him through it all. Or maybe I’ve just gone nuts. Stone cold crazy or not, however, I finished my second Daring ... More About: Cooking , Dessert , Challenge , Bakers , Yule
Speculaas Muffins
2007-12-19 03:43:00 Speculaas cookies (sometimes called Dutch Windmill cookies) evoke warm, farmiliar memories in my mind. I can picture my sisters and I, very young, sitting in the backseat on the way home from a drive to Pennsylvania Dutch County, with a box full of these wonderfully aromatic spiced cookies, our roadtrip bounty. I have no idea ... More About: Life , Cooking , Holiday , Recipe , Snacks
Comfort Food: Fried Chicken
2007-12-12 02:16:00 If you’ve never had homemade fried chicken–eaten within minutes of emerging from the oil, glistening and unctous–then I’ve got to tell you, you have no idea what fried chicken is, my friend. Fried chicken is not chewy. Fried chicken should never be dry. Fried chicken skin should be crispy (unless, of course, it’s covered in gravy) ... More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Poultry , Comfort food
All in the Family Brassica: Dijon Pork & Kale Stew
More articles from this author:2007-12-06 18:08:00 Kale is one of those “new” foods for me, which seems strange because I am a huge fan of bitter greens. Most likely I never noticed kale when it was served to me, it’s not usually something one raves about (until right now, that is). I probably just happily ate it, noting the ... More About: Family , Cooking , Vegetables , Meat , Recipe 1, 2, 3 |
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