Amazing!

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Panzanella is an Italian bread salad that makes wonderful use of the bounty of summer – fresh, ripe, juicy tomatoes. Fragrant basil. Crisp cucumbers. I always heard that it was a creative Italian way to use up stale bread. I’ve always loved panzanella, but was never really satisfied with different variations that I tried over […]

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Dana, at Phat Duck, has a very informative post on perfecting food purees. Food and Wine is running a food photo contest (h/t Chez Pim). If you are interested in a great cookbook, Food and Wine’s annual cookbook is hard to beat. The Amateur Gourmet’s July 31 entry sings the praises of Gourmet’s July 2006 […]

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Inspired by Cream Puffs in Venice’s recent creations from Once Upon a Tart, I pulled out my copy of the cookbook. I admired the clean cover. Happily, I trotted upstairs and settled down in anticipation of turning the crisp pages, when I saw THAT A CORNER HAD BEEN CHEWED!!!! Oh, the horror! Who ate my […]

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I think I have at least 500 cookbooks. Seriously. I had collected quite a few on my own, but a couple years ago my mother passed away, and I inherited her vast collection. I have given away literally hundreds of cookbooks in the past year, as I try to pare down my horde to a […]

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I seem to be trying a lot of Ina Garten’s recipes lately. Probably because they are usually quite good, always seem to work, and adapt well to my constant tweaking! I tried this recipe without changing a thing, a rare and noteworthy event. I still ended up adapting it a bit!   Ina Garten’s Frozen […]

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Rambutan (left) and Lychee I love to cook and bake, but sometimes I just get . . . tired. Burned out. What usually follows these episodes are weeks of furious experimenation. Once again, I find that I love to shop for food, and will venture to our local Asian markets and farm stands to look […]

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I’ve updated it with photos. Of course, I will be studying Heidi’s Food Photography Tips!

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Over at Farmgirl Fare. So cute!

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Meatloaf – before baking Master Chow loves meat loaf. A few years ago, I started experimenting with meat loaf recipes. My father despised the dish, so it was not something that my mother cooked, and I was not sure what made a good one or a bad one. Twenty years of vegetarianism didn’t enlighten me […]

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