May 2013 « A Woman Sconed

Bread of the Month: Perfuming air with herbs

By rahoward, on May 31st, 2013

I sought a simple loaf bread recipe for this month’s recipe test. But when I began perusing the King Arthur Flour website for possibilities, I was overwhelmed with so many delicious options and became impossibly hungry.

l thrilled from my thyme-laced popovers (see blog entry in 4/13), I came across a French Herb Bread that . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Perfuming air with herbs

Stirring an elegant sauce two ways

By rahoward, on May 31st, 2013

A few weeks ago, I sat down to begin writing of a delicious hollandaise sauce I had made in the blender, when I read the words of Julia Child in Vol. 1 of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”: “It is extremely easy and almost foolproof to make in the electric blender, and we . . . → Read More: Stirring an elegant sauce two ways

“People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
--M.F.K. Fisher

"It was in a yellow limestone church in Stockdale, Kansas, a crossroads town, that I sat dreaming during summer Sunday sermons, not of heaven or hell, but of the good dinner to come."
--Clementine Paddleford

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Stirring an elegant sauce two ways

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