Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Every year I get a pound of pistachios for Christmas from my grandmother. I'm not one of those people who has time to sit around shelling and eating nuts like a fat squirrel, so it usually takes me a while to go through them. Here it is, the end ...
Posted in Fish and Seafood, Nuts, Spices, Vegetables, Wine | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
A few weeks ago I saw a recipe for guacamole at 101 Cookbooks that called for "perfectly ripe avocados." I was compelled to comment that there's so much joy to be gotten from unripe and over-ripe fruits and vegetables, even avocados. More than a few cultures are known to make ...
Posted in Meat, Smoke, Vegetables | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Since cooking and eating corned beef, cabbage and potatoes somehow makes the matriarchs in my family feel as if we're right back in Galway whence sprung my bloodline, a metric ton of the stuff has been changing hands on my mother's side for an entire week. ...
Posted in Potatoes | No Comments »