Weeknight Wondermeal: Baked Eggs and Bacon Cream in Spinach Fettuccine Nests
OK – I admit it. I failed this weekend — twice. Epic Fails. My milk and honey braised fresh ham steak was dry on Saturday night (I covered and cooked what should have remained uncovered to boil...
View ArticleWeeknight Wondermeal: Baked Egg Linguine with Onion, Scallion, and Umame
Spring is getting here … but it’s taking its sweet time. Today was nice and sunny, yet there was a cold, strong wind that blew right through my corduroy jacket, and right up my long skirt, swirling...
View ArticleLuscious Lobster Lasagna
Lolita loves herself a three-day weekend, and this July 4th provided just that – with perfect weather, no less! Our little roof deck in the sky proved to be the prime place for this year’s fireworks....
View ArticleApple, Onion, Sausage and Sage Stuffed Baked Pumpkins
Dinner tonight was, in a word: WOW. It was visually stunning, imaginatively simple, flavorful and hearty, crisp sweet and rich meaty, herbaceous and vegetal and positively porcine. I’ve been...
View ArticleWeeknight Wondermeal: Stuffed Roasted Pork Chops with Gorgonzola Cauliflower...
I really haven’t intended to do this pork chop series, but my wee freezer is chockablock full of fantastic meats from Blood Farm, and I can’t seem to get enough of their super-savory swine. Their...
View ArticleHomemade Hard Tacos with Popcorn Shrimp and Poblano Queso Cream
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now: I LOVE MEXICAN FOOD. I guess I should specify it as “Mexican-inspired”, since I’ve never been to Mexico and can’t say with authority that any food...
View ArticlePan Seared Skate Wing, Molten Cheddar Grits, Wilted Spinach, and Spring Onion...
Oh hai Spring! It’s March in New England but my windows have been open for days, and today I rode through Brighton in a tank-top, getting some much needed sun on my oh-so-pale shoulders. This false...
View ArticleCrab Cakes Benedict
Even though “crab” is the first word in tonight’s plat du jour, the real star of any Benedict is EGG. If you are like me, you have only an 80% success rate cracking eggs without breaking the yolk; to...
View ArticleRoasted Game Hens, Brussels Sprouts, Tiny Potatoes, Bacon Hollandaise,...
Besides being a full time college administrator and a part-time blogger, I also help teach writing intensive classes in English Literature at Harvard, and this semester we are studying Darwin’s theory...
View ArticleLockdown Hash
It has been one hell of a week here in Boston. Bombings set off on Monday, our noble Marathon violently marred, death and dismemberment brought home to children and other innocents, and terror...
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