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I’ve eaten a lot of good garlic bread, even making some myself (often an herb-infused-in-olive oil version), but I had not eaten GREAT garlic bread until I sat down at the table of Liboria Salerno (for more about her, please see blog entry, “Presenting Pavlova to a ballerina” of 6/16). The bread was toasted to . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Mastering great garlic bread
When I first began conversing with Al Dente Floyd at work, he gave me his mother’s phone number, saying, “Since you do the food thing, you might want to talk to her — she has a lot of recipes.” But, he admonished, “Whatever you do, DON’T talk to her about the ballet.” What?!?! Al Dente . . . → Read More: Guest Kitchen: Presenting Pavlova to a ballerina
 Comments are closed  FIELD TRIP, GUEST KITCHEN, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized  artichokes, berries, cream, garlic, meringue, pavlova 
There are some folks who just get the job done. Others say they will do this or that, and don’t — they simply collapse back on themselves, and just thinking about the thing they aim to do tires them. Then there are people like Glen Lamontagne, who charge ahead tirelessly, bringing order out of chaos, . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Pressing forth aboard the tortilladora
Comments are closed GUEST KITCHEN, PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized bread, cheese, corn, quesadilla, tortillas 
Sometimes I get weird ideas. Actually, I get weird ideas most of the time, but I only act on a portion of them. When I decide to act on one of my curious notions, it’s as if I’ve signed a contract…it’s odd. I am as unyielding on myself as if the world expected me to . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Planning tea — and scones — for two
Comments are closed FIELD TRIP, GUEST KITCHEN, PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized berries, scones, tea, vanilla bean 
I cannot begin to write about my mother’s bread making without mentioning her kneading. And I would have to begin any discussion of her kneading by describing her hands. My mother is not, nor has she ever been, a delicate doily of a damsel, and neither are her hands. Big, rough and muscular are not . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Handing down a roll recipe
Comments are closed FIELD TRIP, GUEST KITCHEN, PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized bread, butter, knead, rolls, travel, yeast 
My late Grandma Mae called my parents nearly every day until her death in 2008 at the age of 92. Her inquiries were nearly always the same: “What’s new?” “What’s the weather doin’ over there?” “How’s your firewood holding up?” But one of her predominant questions was as much to affirm as to ask: . . . → Read More: Guest Kitchen: Following in (peanut) brittle footsteps
Imagine a morning, a coming of winter morning when you exclaim, “Oh, my! It’s fruitcake weather!” Truman Capote did, and upon reading his story, “A Christmas Memory” for the first time about a decade ago, I never quite felt the same about Capote, Christmas or fruitcake. I was always a Capote fan, ever . . . → Read More: Faring well in ‘fruitcake weather’
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