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Brunch bonanza

Monday, March 31st, 2008

This past weekend saw a flurry of cooking, with food from other cookbooks (and thus unrecorded here) and also a brunch bonanza from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics. It was All Martha, All the Time, and seriously, my back now hurts. I may be suffering from Martha-xhaustion. Is that a treatable syndrome?
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Careless errors

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Do you ever make mistakes in the kitchen? I made one the other day while baking Elke Wood’s lemon squares (scroll down halfway) from the “cookies and candy” chapter of The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics.
You see, the recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour. As you probably know, lemon bars […]

Two in one

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

If you look closely at the photo above, you will see that I oh-so-cleverly combined two recipes into one meal last night, knocking the official recipe count of The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics down to 27!
Part I of the meal was a refreshing dish of soba noodles with tofu, avocado, and snow […]

Fish burgers

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Only 31 Martha recipes to go and our review of The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics will be o-ver! Confession #1: I can’t wait. Confession #2: I just looked at the Table of Contents again and made an executive decision to eliminate the “pastries” chapter from this review. We’re now officially down to 29 recipes — take […]

Recipe No. 10: In which Martha surprises me

Monday, March 24th, 2008

After making nine recipes from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics, I thought I had the book figured out: Ethnic recipes, good. Continental recipes, bland. And then along came chicken cassoulet with crisp breadcrumb topping.
Upon first glance, this dish seemed hearty but plain, with white beans cooked simply with carrot, onion and celery, and […]

Plain pasta

Friday, March 21st, 2008

 
I made spaghetti with garden vegetables from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics a few days ago, but have been putting off a post about it. Why? Well, I love garden vegetables, I love pasta, but this was pretty darn bland. Perhaps Martha feels similarly because I can’t find the recipe on her […]

Trading Tastes: The United States Regional Cookbook

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Welcome to another edition of Trading Tastes, in which guest bloggers write about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we are thrilled to welcome back ma belle-mere, bon vivant Victoria Klein (have you checked out her website yet? It’s gorgeous). She suggests:
The United States Regional Cookbook 
Another vintage cookbook I had picked up at a library book sale is called, very […]

Mere coincidence?

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Did you watch Top Chef last night? I was struck by the Quickfire Challenge, which required contestants to prepare a dish out of five ingredients or less (with only salt, pepper and oil uncounted), a challenge that seemed suspiciously like… our very own Five Items! Could Top Chef producers be reading this blog?!

When “grosseur” is gross

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

There was an interesting article yesterday in the NYT dining section, The Fat Pack Wonders if the Party’s Over, which discusses the physical toll of being a gourmand. Are food enthusiasts killing themselves with their unbridled enjoyment of pork belly, butter, prosciutto and foie gras? In a word, yes. 
Frankly, I’ve long wondered about guys like Mario […]

Dining Out and About: Sakana

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Took a night off from Martha for a sushi treat at Sakana, a Dupont Circle Japanese place that I found via my friends on Chowhound. Before I describe the meal, I’d like to take a moment to bemoan the state of restaurants in Dupont Circle. Why do people converge on only a small handful of […]

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