89 posts categorized "Kitchen Notes"
Spring onion bhaji
Such good spring onions everywhere, so densely green and so seldom flabby or brown-tipped! I can't resist buying a few bunches for another round of spring onion bhaji, a dish that became a treat while my mother visited for a......
French yogurt cupcakes
Nothing extraordinary, not even anything very new, just some cupcakes I made last week for a buffalo-themed potluck, using Bobalis buffalo milk yogurt, naturellement, and Dorie Greenspan's recipe. My head has felt overfull of late and inevitably I've done too......
Chocolate fudge cake & Brandenburg
And now our string of familiar occasions is finished. Highlights of David's birthday yesterday included surprising him with a reprise of last year's chocolate fudge cake in the morning, and then surprising him again at lunchtime when one friend after......
Anniversary cookies
Such ideas for excursions to the zoo, the Haus am Waldsee, a return to Leo Bettini, and in the end? An anniversary spent playing with our daughter, napping, listening to Music for Airports, some cookies, some rain (lots of rain).......
Pepper adventures
Now a cantankerous baby, a mother who hasn't found a minute to breakfast, a wildly untidy apartment, a plateful of roasted peppers stubbornly refusing skinnage, a forlorn bunch of bananas discovered in a plastic bag on the floor -- now......
Bärlauchspätzle/Back in Berlin
Oh lucky lucky girl I am, to come home to a husband who whips up wild garlic noodles when I am tired. (To make them, just follow a standard spaetzle recipe and puree a bunch of Bärlauch with the eggs.)......