I know that I tend to go on and on about stews and soups come (every) autumn, but here is a dish which I make at every opportunity I get, and which makes a beautiful and delicious (not to mention much speedier!) alternative to a long-cooked stew as a fall-weather main course for a dinner party, or just a sit-on-sofa-with-bowl-in-lap sort of evening. Stuffed squash is something which I … Continue reading Stuffed Squash with Rice, Beef and Mushrooms
The weather had turned autumn-ward several weeks ago. And while I wish we’d have had our full share of summer, and not had it truncated at the end of July (I mean, where DID the August go, really?), I also can’t say I am unhappy about the excuse to get out pretty and warm clothes, drink hot drinks, and cook cold-weather comfort food. Most comforting … Continue reading Potato and Mushroom Gratin – Real Quick (for a Gratin!)
Earlier this week, I’ve done a guest post at the blog of the Illustrious Ping, queen of making tiny gorgeous fiddly things that I stare at with envy. Often. So of course I was terribly excited when she invited me to write a guest post, and put up one of my recent and very successful (according to T) recipes, a salad of topinambours and mushrooms … Continue reading My Guest Post at Ping’s Pickings – Topinambour and Mushroom Salad
This is it, my old trusty pizza dough recipe and method. It is divorse and I get the oven in the settlement. Goodbye, adieu, and I am never coming back. You see, I have a new love. Actually, two of them, and they love me back, and we are very very happy (well, perhaps aside from the danger of increasing my derrierre). Their names are … Continue reading I Tossed My Old Pizza Recipe Out The Window – Or, How To Achieve Pizza Nirvana
Eat The Roses 