I sort of love baking. It doesn’t chime my bell like cooking does, mostly because baking has to be precise, which I am generally not. And there are steps. Steps that should be in the right order. But I enjoy chocolate, and I enjoy chocolate in the form of cookies. So it was cookie time. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Cookay tiem
Posted in Cooking on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pate de campagne
Posted in Cooking on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been wanting to make a rustic pate for a while, since I had a slice on Cochon’s boucherie plate in New Orleans last Christmastide. I still dream about their quail mousse. Mmm.
I used Molly Wizenberg’s receipt from the Dec 08 edition of Bon Appetit. I followed her recipe to the letter sans the [...]
Sad news
Posted in My Family on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Day was a hard day. Had the grandparents and great grandma over for dinner and what we thought was going to be a long weekend (their power had been out all day). Grandpa gave us the news this evening that his cancer has returned. Three years ago he had his kidney removed because of cancer. [...]
Smoke
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my favorite memories from my time in Italy was the distilled veil of incense that wraps around you when you enter a basilica. The sweet smoke a curtain that envelops you, beckoning you to breathe in the sweet perfume and linger. I would imagine that every wisp was a prayer, the curl of [...]
