This made me laugh out loud as I was flipping through The Joy of Cooking in search of recipes for scones and tea sandwiches. For, you guessed it, tea. I do love me some tea. Something about the clotted cream gets me giddy. To the unexpected comic gem. Under the recipe for Rich Cocktail Tart [...]
I made salmon for the first time this evening. I only burned myself in three different places. Which qualifies this dinner as an official triumph. Luckily, the salmon was tender and tasty. If I have to burn myself (and I do), I don’t want to be burning myself for crappy fish. There is no photo [...]
I am abandoning you, my fellow food lovers, in order to lie slothfully here: Despair not, much food will be eaten and I have a camera and computer. Rumor has it that we will be on a boat with someone who owns fancy knives. I assume she knows what to do with them. Perhaps I [...]
See this dinner? Doesn’t it look tasty? I had nothing to do with it. I was marginally more helpful with this: I yanked the stems off the spinach. This recipe is courtesy of the only other inhabitant of Casa de Moose who’s allowed to use the stove. The dogs would love to fry them up [...]
I am lolling on the couch in a chocolate sated stupor after polishing off the last piece of this: Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake of the gods. In spite of my vague worry over the lumps and my distrust of the golden brown sugar (recipe specified dark brown and deviations of this kind make me twitchy), [...]
