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Blog, interrupted

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Sorry for the long silence, mes amies. I unexpectedly started an intensive French class last week that meets M-F for five hours a day. Sadly, this leaves very little time for (a) cooking, and (b) blogging. Instead, I spend a lot of time pinching my nose to make nasal vowel sounds and generally bumbling my way […]

Ode to Sriracha

Friday, April 4th, 2008

 
Oh, Sriracha
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee drizzled on scrambled eggs or squirted on a boca burger
On pho, of course, but also on spaghetti
In lentil soup, or any soup, really
You could enliven any boring leftover Martha Stewart concoction
(In fact you often have)…
My back is feeling much, much better — […]

Hazards of Cooking the Books

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Oh, mes amies. After my jaunty cooking bonanza over the weekend, I was shocked when that dull ache in my lower back suddenly turned into a giant, throbbing knot. It turns out that spending hours on one’s feet in a hunched position actually causes lingering pain — who knew? The good news is that the pain […]

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?!

Rome with a view

Friday, February 29th, 2008

 
I’m back! And oh, Rome was so beautiful… the gentle sunshine, narrow streets, crumbling buildings… the gelato, pizza and artichokes… the coffee, freshly squeezed blood orange juice, and wine…
But I’ll write more about the food later. For now, here are a few pictures.

Cooking the Books hits the road

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Please pardon our molto brief hiatus, while we journey to Rome (photo above taken during our last visit to the Eternal City in 2005). We are looking forward to eating lots of food (pasta! gelato!), drinking lots of special beverages (espresso! cappucino! wine!), wandering around and taking lots of photos… And rest assured that we […]

Je t’aime

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I’ll post about my dinner plans later, but for now here is my little Valentine to you, Paris on a sunny day. Could anything be lovelier?

Oloroso sherry

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Before perusing Moro: The Cookbook, I thought of sherry as a very proper tipple served in stuffy British homes — something you’d drink at the vicar’s house for example. (Not that I’ve ever personally known a vicar.) It also seemed quite old fashioned and literary, the type of thing Dickens would drink, or, obviously, Edgar […]

Please, try this at home

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I don’t usually post recipes because I do not want to encounter any Missy Chase Lapine-esque accusations of Seinfeld-style plagiarism. That being said, sometimes a recipe is already on the internets; if so, I try to link to it.
BUT — if you’d ever like to try any of the recipes seen here, leave me a […]

Happy holidays!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

 
Tomorrow, Cooking the Books goes on the road to sunny Southern California, home of the only fast food we’ll eat (In-n-Out), the world’s best Mexican restaurant (Enrique’s in Long Beach), and 70-degree December days (we’ve never known a white Christmas).
We’ve still got four recipes to go before we fulfill our 2007 cookbook obligations, so we’ll be filing […]

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