Maple Cornbreadadapted from the King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion 1 cup (4 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour1 cup (4 3/4 ounces) yellow cornmeal1 tablespoon baking powder1 teaspoon salt1 cup buttermilk1/4 cup maple syrup4 tablespoons butter, melted2 large eggs Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Lightly grease an 8×8 inch square or 9-inch round baking pan. In…
Archives for January 2010
butterscotch budino with caramel sauce
I’m not feeling particularly triumphant today. I keep trying to rally, to throw my fist in the air and say “Wahoo!” but it’s just not coming. Although I must say, typing it helped a little bit. Let’s try that again. “Wahoo!” Nope, lost it that second time. Oh, well. I’m a little aimless. A little…
ricotta cake
I’m pretty sure that there was only one cookbook in my mother’s kitchen when I was a child. Or at least only one that mattered. I remember sitting on the floor with the cookbook on my lap, dressed in mini patchwork bell bottoms and lace up boots, perusing the handwritten recipes, the “mushroom strudel”, the…
this is the moment
I’ve got a nice little cake for you coming up later today. Get your ricotta going, and you’ll be ready. But this morning, I’ve got a request for you. There’s quite a mess down there in Haiti, and they need a big pile of money to help all of the people who are stuck in…
meat
Vegetarians, this post is not for you. Go elsewhere in your daily ritual web wanderings, and come back here tomorrow. Today we’re going to talk about meat. We eat a fair amount of meat around here.Hard as it may be to believe, I was a vegetarian from the ages of nine to seventeen. I sported…