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May 12, 2006 | 4 Comments

Donna Hay’s Caramel-Filled Biscuits

For the third Hay, Hay, It’s Donna Day! the challenge was to make cookies having two colors and two flavors – a very good challenge. My choice, Caramel-Filled Biscuits with added chocolate, unfortunately, did not come out to my liking. Here’s my gripe: the cookie is buttery, sandy, and soft – like a tender shortbread. […]

May 10, 2006 | 2 Comments

Eggplant Parmesan

Martha’s recipe for baked eggplant parm is delicious, and easy to make to boot. We paired the dish with a bottle of Candoni Wines’ Candoni D.O.C.G., and a good hunk of bakery fresh bread. After the wine was finished, we wrapped the meal up with a fresh salad tossed with extra virgin olive oil and […]

May 10, 2006 | 2 Comments

Parmesan Fritters

Boil, boil, toil, and trouble. Gas burner burn, and fry pan bubble. When I was a kid, my dad used to make chicken cutlets all the time. Not chicken parmesan (though I’d have happily eaten it) – just chicken, breaded with breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, some herbs, salt and pepper. He’d fry them in some olive […]

May 10, 2006 | 2 Comments

Spatulatta.com Wins James Beard Award

From NPR.com: Pre-Teens Win James Beard Web AwardMichele Norris talks with Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Chicago sisters who won a James Beard Foundation Award for their Web site, spatulatta.com. At ages 10 and 8, the sisters are the youngest people to win the prestigious award. Their site is geared toward teaching kids how to cook. […]

May 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

Reduced Fat Macaroni & Cheese

Summer is almost here so, yesterday, I tried on a pair of shorts. They were … tighter than I remember them to be. So either clothes are now shrinking during winter storage (which I’m not ready to rule out) or writing a food blog causes one’s ass diameter to increase. (Damn you food blog! DAMN […]

May 9, 2006 | 0 Comments

Road Trip!

Photo Source. Shane & I are headed to Toronto in about two weeks. I’m really excited — I’ve never been there before, even though it’s only 4 hours away. So, if you’ve got any recommendations — restaurants (of course), museums, music venues, shops, etc. — please let me know!

May 7, 2006 | 5 Comments

Mango Ginger Buttermilk Ice Cream

(Check out Retro Recipe Challenge #1!) Another ginger recipe, adapted from our foodie lord and savior’s website: Martha Stewart.com There, MS has a recipe for Nectarine Ginger Buttermilk Ice Cream but since nectarines aren’t in season, I substituted mangoes. This was a very easy recipe to make — made all the more easy with assistance […]

May 6, 2006 | 1 Comment

Burgers and Baked Onion Rings

Sometimes you have such high hopes for a meal. You go to the store, carefully select your ingredients, get home, set up your mise en place, and cook. And then, when everything is in front of you, and you take your first bite – well sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s not, and some it’s […]

May 5, 2006 | 4 Comments

Ginger Scented Pecans

By itself, ginger is not one of my favorites. I like ginger snaps, gingerbread, spice cakes, etc. but I always leave pickled ginger on my sushi board and can’t fathom why anyone would want to eat crystallized ginger. There’s something about its pungent scent that hits my nose the wrong way. It’s like those old […]

May 5, 2006 | 1 Comment

The "L" in Laura Stands for "Lame"

I’ve been getting a fair amount of hits, but no comments, and I couldn’t help but wonder why.It’s because I’m an idiot. I enabled the “moderate comments” feature on blogger, which I thought would just allow me to delete “phising” comments. I was wrong. The feature requires bloggers to review every comment BEFORE posting and […]

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