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A Curious Cupful: May 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Friday, May 22, 2009. How is rhubarb like an avocado? Just some fruit (or vegetable) for thought. And because disguise or not, it does seem that rhubarb belongs in sweet pie shells rather than salad bowls, lets get back to the sugar. From long, lanky stalks, rhubarb cut into little pieces turns to a confetti of pink and green, tart and tasty. Add a little sugar, a little heat, and one (heat resistant) spatula.
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A Curious Cupful: March 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Folks, it is spring. Yes. It. Is. Spring! And holy crab cakes, is that a good thing. This last two week stretch has been a doozy. A blast of serious winter chilliness, Russ with a case of bronchitis, and then a streak of plain, gray, rainy days. And sweet, heart shaped beets. Today it is sunny and cool. The Mister Softee truck just drove by clinking out it's tune. And while, as I'...On Ap...
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A Curious Cupful: February 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Friday, February 27, 2009. Food and Thoughts and a Green Kitchen Tablecloth. Food is a beautiful thing. As are strong, sweet memories. And, as it's turned out, so too are green cotton tablecloths. Which opened the marvelous flood gates for the stories to begin. We talked about cake. Then wedding cakes. Then tales of my grandmother's father, his candy business, his tools and time he spent carefully sha...Then phot...
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A Curious Cupful: August 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Something Old, Something Blue. A fresh, soft and bright pint of blueberries is a wonder I'm newly excited about. As you may remember I'm also newly excited this summer about jam. I look at fruit stands in the Greenmarkets around town and think, "Oo! Strawberry jam. Oh, raspberry. For something different I replaced a third of the sugar with light brown sugar. The result was a slightl...
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A Curious Cupful: Homemade
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. There are times in life when I am demanding. Specifically, they are Saturday and Sunday mornings when Russ sleeps in late and I am hungry. For true, southern style buttermilk biscuits. The book, which highlights staple cooking techniques taught by well seasoned masters, boasted one photo of baking soda leavened biscuits too beautiful to ignore. Homemade recipe #1: Baking powder. Refreshed,...
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A Curious Cupful: Soup: A Love List
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Monday, December 8, 2008. Soup: A Love List. In an ode to love letters and grocery lists, here are 15 reasons (seasoned with one recipe) for which I am smitten with soup. 1 While it's not officially winter, it is officially cold. And soup, well, it's hot. It's the warm-cocoa-in-a-mug of nourishing meals. 4 And what can't you put in it? 6 Soup is comfortable. It is no hard shelled lobster. No fishy filet f...9 Sou...
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A Curious Cupful: June 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A Quiet Night with Cherry Cake. When you find yourself at the cool end of a warm day, finished with work and settling onto your couch with a good movie and great company nearby, it is most certainly an occasion that calls for cake. This fact is only further supported when you have the first of summer's cherries in your fridge, pink, red, and ruby.just waiting for some sugar. During the fir...
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A Curious Cupful: February 2010
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. It Doesn't Look Pretty. I hate umbrellas in New York. I think they are misused. Tools to poke and jab, weapons rather than shields, excuses to walk blindly around the streets without a care who you are pushing into a puddle. All manners run straight down into the gutter when those darn city umbrellas open. It was indeed a situation only remedied by a big, steaming bowl of hot soup.
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A Curious Cupful: July 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Thursday, July 23, 2009. Wedding cake that is. My first. After a lot of eggs, butter and sugar, flour misting the air, chocolate to make frosting, some fondant and a lot of gum paste (sugar! With the help of my expert assistant we cut dowels for support, placed cakes veeeery. White shirt and pink dress still white and light pink, we successfully put everything together just in time to scoot ourselves to the cerem...
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A Curious Cupful: April 2009
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A blend of food stories steeped in kitchen tips and eating adventures with recipes to taste. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Attack of the Ramps. It could be a tag line on an illuminated poster of a B movie, a la horror genre. They came out of the fields. They invaded New York. They're green, they're alive, they're.". Horror turns to happy endings. With winter officially behind us, ramps are the earth's way of assuring us its spring. Giving us a pat on the back, saying, "Congratulations! I hope so. Once gol...
