Cooking with Radishes

I'm pretty sure the first time the concept of cooked radishes crossed my radar was in a soup at Le Gourmand restaurant some unknown number of years ago. (The restaurant sadly closed a decade ago, so probably 15 years ago or more?) In that context, puréed with other ingredients, the [...]

2022-06-20T21:41:49+00:00May 24th, 2022|Cooking at Home, Seasonal Eats|

Pita Bread with Sourdough Discard

I originally meant to post this last summer, when it seemed that--almost literally--everyone was on the sourdough bread baking kick. I surprised myself being among that horde, having spent most of my life unapologetically not a bread-baker. As if by prescience, though just dumb luck, I'd spend a weekend [...]

2023-07-14T17:33:41+00:00May 11th, 2021|Baking, Cooking at Home, Recipes|

The Kitchen Reno: Before and After

Even though the dust has settled and the workmen gone, I keep a comic strip stuck to the wall that really struck a chord a few months ago. In that timeless setting of the therapist's office, the therapist prattles on about how there are no quick fixes in therapy, it's [...]

2020-01-24T00:50:41+00:00April 27th, 2016|Cooking at Home|

Home Cooking: What It Is

And, at the same time, I suppose that begs the question of what it isn't. It hadn't occurred to me that "home cooking" was that tough a concept to define. But this article in this morning's Wall Street Journal got me thinking. And sent me off on a tangent too. The title "The [...]

2013-06-19T19:49:15+00:00June 19th, 2013|Cooking at Home, Food and Drink|

Stormy-Day Chili

Based on Twitter feeds and Facebook chats, it sounds like many of us around the country were feeling a sort of solidarity with all those on the eastern seaboard being ravaged by frenetic megastorm Sandy. Honestly, the blustery weather we're having in Seattle would have been enough on its own. [...]

2012-11-01T01:16:24+00:00November 1st, 2012|Cooking at Home, Food and Drink, Seasonal Eats|

My Favorite Food Group: Salty Crunchy

All work and no play has been making Cynthia somewhat dingbatty. Honestly. It's that kind of brain-frizz that makes me turn in circles in the kitchen 3 or 4 times before I remember that all I needed to do was grab a knife out of the drawer to spread peanut [...]

2011-07-22T14:24:05+00:00July 14th, 2011|Cookbooks, Cooking at Home|

Microwave, Schmicrowave

I FINALLY bought my first microwave. Nah. Just kidding. April Fool's!! A day late. I've never had a microwave. And I plan to live the rest of a full and satisfying life without ever owning a microwave. This week's piece in the Wall Street Journal about microwave manufacturer's trying to [...]

2010-04-02T18:17:39+00:00April 2nd, 2010|Cooking at Home|
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