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Cooking the Books – Green City Market Cookbook

2016-07-20T23:39:27+02:00

A quick note for Chicago folks: paella class is back! July 26 (next Tuesday) at the Peterson Garden Project, sign up here. It was great fun last summer, I hope (...)

Cooking the Books – Ina Garten’s Make It Ahead

2016-05-01T03:24:28+02:00

Oh, Ina, if there was a way to live your life. For April, we picked the Barefoot Contessa Make It Ahead cookbook. Let me say first that there’s a reason Ina’s (...)

April in the Garden

2016-05-01T02:29:03+02:00

I’ve been spying on my garden through the fence for the past month or so, watching and waiting to spot the first green tops of my chives. Last weekend, the (...)

Macerated Oranges

2016-03-16T16:50:36+01:00

All credit due to Chicago (and possibly global warming?), we barely had anything that qualifies as winter this year. A few days below freezing, a couple inches (...)

Cooking the Books – Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

2016-03-04T22:02:06+01:00

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…The people who give you their food give you their heart.” I stumbled on that quote (...)

Cooking the Books – The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

2016-01-20T20:01:09+01:00

The grande dame of home cooking Julie Child said, “People who love to eat are always the best people.” No surprise, they’re also the best people to start a (...)

So Long, 2015!

2016-01-01T01:46:33+01:00

It’s been quite a year. More travel than I ever imagined, growing and cooking delicious food, taking (and teaching!) my first paella class, starting a new (...)

Around my french table

2015-11-16T19:45:45+01:00

“Living well is the best revenge.” That saying kept running through my head Saturday night as I sat in my living room talking with new friends, drinking wine, (...)

Browned Butter Vanilla Ice Cream

2015-11-10T19:39:26+01:00

Every year on November 1, the Internet collectively explodes in a shower of “new/favorite/best make-ahead (...)

Easiest Tomato Sauce

2015-10-02T05:04:00+02:00

I feel like stockbroker yelling “Buy, buy, buy!!!”, but it’s the tail end of tomato season and I just figured out the best-tasting, easiest sauce I’ve ever (...)