recipes

Jane’s World-Famous Award-Winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie 2011

11.08.2011

This is the most Googled post I’ve ever written (well, the French toenails vies for that as well), which would seem to indicate I might have a career as a food blogger.

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Rustic Summer Fruit Tart

07.20.2011

I was watching MasterChef at the time, and it came to me that I could make like a wannabe-MasterChef and whip up a dessert from what I had on hand.

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Taking Root in Provence: a book excerpt & a recipe

06.10.2011

All social life takes place around the table, where one talks about food above all else. Recipes are exchanged, addresses offered, and recommendations made…Now, what are you going to serve with that? Soupe au pistou? Excellent idea.

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My Peanut Dacquoise a la Bon Appetit

05.12.2011

Have you eaten–or pitched–all the Easter candy?  Is it too past the point to tell you about the dessert I made for the bunch I went to? Fed up with creating failed recipes out of my own head, I turned to Bon Appetit for a recipe I could actually follow.  I found Peanut Dacquoise with [...]

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Food Blogging and MidLifeBloggers

04.14.2011

These days, the two things that will always perk me up are writing and cooking.

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Farm Fresh to Me

03.30.2011

As part of the experiment, I’m going to challenge myself to cook new-to-me (or created-by-me) recipes to use the produce.

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Jane’s World-Famous Award-Winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie

11.15.2010

6. Stir in the vanilla (did I mention that you should never ever use anything but Real Vanilla as the Imitation stuff tastes like shit and why would you want to spoil your cooking thusly?)

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