Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
It is a new year. There’s cooking a plenty afoot. (See SHF #4 for some brilliant nut-related desserts). So we are going to give you two extra hours for the Paper Chef (aren’t we kind!)…
OK, it’s that time of month again. Time for the Paper Chef. TO recap, here are the rules (slightly updated and now the semi-official set) Semi-Official Paper Chef Rules On the first Friday of every…
The hotpot is a funny dish – seeing as how it has nothing whatsoever to do with a pot. But it is tasty, although very meat-and-potatoes unfashionable. Something I was reading by Nigel Slater made…
The past year has been a bad one all around – for me and for the planet as a whole. I am going to choose to believe that out of adversity grows greater strength, out…
Time to get started on the second installment of the Paper Chef! The January 2005 version will start on January 7, 2005 at Noon PST. The mandatory ingredient list will be announced slightly before that…
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Well, we had the murder mystery party. Being the kind of masochist that I am, I decided that I could write one of these things in under a week – no problem. Ha! It’s a…
I love oatcakes. I always have and I always will. They are better than mere crackers in every way. They taste better, they are better for you and they are more interesting. I have made…
Jan and I have been wanting to eat at Chez Panisse for about fifteen years. We’ve eaten at the upstairs cafe many times and each occasion has been especially memorable in one way or another,…
So the murder mystery is under construction. We are at Ponsonby Manor in Welfleet, Suffolk. It is December 24th 1938. Half of Europe is preparing for the long dark nights of war and the other…