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stuff to eat: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Pie scares me. I have no trouble eating pie. In fact, I rather enjoy it―especially with vanilla ice cream. It’s making pies that scares me. More specifically: The thought of making piecrust causes the room to spin, and I have to lie down for a few hours or watch a Sandra Bullock movie. Thanksgiving, the guests would assume the crust was homemade, and I would do nothing to disabuse them of that assumption. Max loves fruit pie and made quick work of the pear-apple crisp. I fi...
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stuff to eat: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. There are dog people and cat people, beach people and mountain people, frosting people and anti-frosting people. While I remain a dog and beach person, I have recently converted from anti-frosting to frosting. For some reason the frosting below, which I adapted from a recipe I found in the April 2010 issue of Bon Appétit. Or, rather, how I imagine those who are partial to crack would feel after having consumed crack. Is Yiddish for shame. Adapted from Bon Appétit. Use really g...
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stuff to eat: August 2011
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Monday, August 8, 2011. Brenda’s Last Season. One of the reasons I loved Law and Order. So much is because New York City, where the show was shot, was a character that was just as important as the ones perpetrating and solving the crimes. When I left New York City for Los Angeles, Law and Order. Which was filmed quite often in my Upper West Side neighborhood, was a great comfort and helped somewhat to ease my unrelenting homesickness. Returns to TNT for its all-too-short season. This is Brenda’s la...
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stuff to eat: When It’s 85 Degrees in February
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. When It’s 85 Degrees in February. This is my fifteenth winter in Los Angeles. You’d think that by now I’d be used to July weather in February. I’m not. But, I am trying to enjoy it. While my New York family members dig themselves out of the snow and deal with hat hair, I am skimming my pool and drawing the daffodils that have once again graced me with their presence in my backyard. Even if you don’t experience summer-like temps in winter or have terrible allergies, make ...
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stuff to eat: Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Julia
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Julia. Last fall, I decided that I would start to do things that scared me. Not Jackass. Type or illegal things; things that at first thought really excited me, but when that annoying, loud voice would chime in with, Are you nuts? You can’t do that! I would bail on the idea. When I read that Tuesdays with Dorie, the online baking club, was starting up again and was going to bake through all the recipes in Baking with Julia. After I took a few mi...
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stuff to eat: October 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010. The July/August 2009 issue of Vegetarian Times. Had a recipe for the best brownies I’ve ever eaten. Over the years I’ve tried dozens of recipes, and this one was it. The best. I freelanced at VT. The summer of 2007, and I know the painstaking methods the magazine employs when it comes to recipe testing and editing. When I found a mistake in the instructions for the brownies, I read the text six times because I was sure I was missing something. VT. The last Grammy issue I worked ...
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stuff to eat: Pie
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Pie scares me. I have no trouble eating pie. In fact, I rather enjoy it―especially with vanilla ice cream. It’s making pies that scares me. More specifically: The thought of making piecrust causes the room to spin, and I have to lie down for a few hours or watch a Sandra Bullock movie. Thanksgiving, the guests would assume the crust was homemade, and I would do nothing to disabuse them of that assumption. Max loves fruit pie and made quick work of the pear-apple crisp. I fi...
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stuff to eat: Fear and Chocolate Truffle Tartlets
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Fear and Chocolate Truffle Tartlets. In his first inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” I think he was right on the money with that one. So, another baking fear conquered, and I think when I’m caught up on sleep I will feel more triumphant. The recipe for Chocolate Truffle Tartlets is here. Or, why not buy. Labels: Baking with Julia. February 21, 2012 at 5:17 AM. Heres to conquering our fears! Im used to individual molds.
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stuff to eat: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. When It’s 85 Degrees in February. This is my fifteenth winter in Los Angeles. You’d think that by now I’d be used to July weather in February. I’m not. But, I am trying to enjoy it. While my New York family members dig themselves out of the snow and deal with hat hair, I am skimming my pool and drawing the daffodils that have once again graced me with their presence in my backyard. Even if you don’t experience summer-like temps in winter or have terrible allergies, make ...
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stuff to eat: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Raisins, Rules and Irish Soda Bread. Raisins occupy two places in my world: the palm of my hand, from where they will be tossed into my mouth, and in bread. Raisins do not belong in cookies, cereal, cake, muffins or the like. I don’t know why I dig raisins in bread or by themselves but will summarily pick them out of a piece of carrot cake or avoid oatmeal-raisin cookies altogether. This week’s Baking with Julia. Recipe for Irish soda bread, visit the blogs of Carla. Oddly, my fa...
