I’m going to try and start a new tradition in chez Cecile (my nom du francaise from middle school french class, natch…no it doesn’t mean Christina, I just picked it out because I liked it. I was a brilliant twelve year old), and that tradition is eating better and having one meal a week be [...]
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Meatless meal
Posted in Cooking on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bumper crop
Posted in Cooking on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have a ton of kale. I’ve eaten kale about six times in the last two weeks. I should be so healthy from all the vitamin C, K and zinc that I could run a marathon.
I love soup in the autumn. Last year I purchased Lidia’s Family Table, and inside she has a chapter on [...]
Monkfish, brutti ma buoni
Posted in Cooking, New York on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Monkfish is an ugly fish. The Venetians call it Angelfish or Angelshark, which is a corruption of its genus, anglerfish. It’s colloquially called “Poor Man’s lobster” because it is sweet with a dense, firm flesh. I’ve never had a mouthful of lobster tail (shocking, I know!), but monkfish I can now say I’ve had.
Z [...]
A Tale of Two Pastas
Posted in Cooking, New York on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the days that Z was in class I took a 3 train to Penn Station to Salumeria Biellese, an old-school shop/restaurant across the street from Madison Square Garden. I was in search of guanciale to make Bucatini alla Amatriciana for dinner. This is one of my favorite Roman dishes, and while I make [...]
A-Maying in New York
Posted in Cooking, New York on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had the most amazing May, spending nearly three weeks with my sweetie. A couple days after finishing my classes for the semester I flew to New York for twelve days, returning to Indiana for a few days of work and then, finding myself without an agenda and making myself and everyone around me miserable [...]
Saucy
Posted in Cooking, My Family on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love bolognese. It’s a little bit of an obsession of mine, in all it’s various iterations. I love that it’s soft and voluptuous when cooked for a long time, and that it’s not tomatoey but deeply meaty. I just want to stick my face in the bowl and breathe in the perfume. It’s like [...]
Sunday Supper in New York
Posted in Cooking, New York on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning my trip to New York Z wanted me to meet a friend of his, L, and make dinner together. I thought this was an awesome idea as I love cooking with others and feeding people I love. I had been storing recipes and ideas in the rolodex that is my brain for weeks, trying [...]
Back from New York
Posted in Cooking, New York on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Took the weekend off from work; this is the second time I returned from New York with a cold. I just finished sieving the chicken soup I made for myself and the water’s on for the noodles (yes, nurses nurse themselves!). I would love to get better naturally and not have to see my nurse [...]
Sunday afternoon Snackle
Posted in Cooking, My Family on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Snackle: that’s what my grandmother called the little treats she gave to me in the afternoon lull between lunch and dinner. Sometimes it was a piece of ham or chicken leftover from the huge Sunday lunches she created seemingly instantly after church, but often times it was a root beer float or ice cream sundae [...]
Cookay tiem
Posted in Cooking on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
