I’ve been trying to get ahead on making meals for the freezer again, for nights when I’m not feeling well, for nights when Charlie and I are tired, for nights when Charlie doesn’t get home from school until ten o’clock at night. I’ve reached out to some of my friends to help me fill my [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Make-Ahead Mac&Cheese with Herbs and Chard
Posted in cooking, tagged chard, cheese, garlic, macaroni and cheese, parsley, pasta, rosemary, sage, thyme on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fragranced Whole Wheat Bread
Posted in baking, tagged baking, bread, fresh herbs, molasses, rosemary, whole wheat, yeast on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Served here with butter and honey, and raspberry jam, and tea.
I’ve made brownies and cookies and cupcakes galore in my new KitchenAid Mixer, but I haven’t baked bread since before I herniated some discs in my back in July, as I was slowly easing my way back into baking, and baking bread was usually part [...]
Foster Cats Tomato Soup
Posted in cooking, tagged basil, bay leaf, carrots, cream, onion, parmesan cheese, rice, thyme, tomatoes on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine was talking about restaurant quality tomato soup, and I thought I should dig this recipe out from my archives that I never got around to posting here.
This is called Foster Cats Tomato Soup because about a year ago, my sister, Bianca, needed someone to watch her cats for a few [...]
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
Posted in baking, tagged baking, cake, cheese, cinnamon, cloves, confectioners, confections, dessert, ginger, maple syrup, nutmeg, pumpkin, vanilla, walnuts on October 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last weekend, we went up to Massachusetts to visit a whole mess of our friends, and of course, wherever there is a whole mess of our friends, I try to make baked goods appear. First, we drove up to Vermont to buy some maple sugar, since it’s an ingredient that I’ve been dying for since [...]
