Posts » Cooking

Nov
24
2010

Cooking Mara! Thanksgiving Preparations

Hooray! It’s time to show my Thanksgiving progress, some good, some bad. It’s going to be photo-heavy and explanation-light. Why? My fingers are numb: I had the windows open and it got chilly. It was a little smoky earlier from the carrots (I’ll get to that). Let’s get the bad out of the way first!…  Continued »

Sep
19
2010

Scratch-making ketchup

Simmering ketchup

Note: I originally wrote this on September 19 and didn’t get around to publishing this until now. Oops. Tomorrow is my husband Christian’s birthday. He doesn’t know this yet, but I am planning to surprise him with some dinner! I’m making him a meatloaf an’ mashed potato dinner with gravy and creamed spinach as a…  Continued »

Sep
12
2010

Today’s lunch: tostones with mojito, Daisy Martinez-style

tostones with mojito

Since my father’s got my camera and my cell phone battery is dead (and the charger is at work), I had to use the camera on my iMac to get this picture of my super-fragrant, super-delicious lunch. My mother recently discovered Daisy Martinez’s cooking program on PBS. She’d fallen in love with Daisy’s food and…  Continued »

Apr
18
2010

Recipe in development: Sausage cooked with many ingredients

A couple months ago or so, I went to my mom’s house where she made something rather fantastic for dinner. She told me that she’d been making such a thing for herself and my father a lot recently. She took sweet and hot Italian sausage and cooked them with garlic, sliced white onions, strips of…  Continued »

Apr
17
2010

Crummy day, but with fancy ingredients

Ugh, what a crappy day. I’ve had some ingredients lying around for a couple weeks to make rose truffles. I was going to make them for the Anime Boston staff dessert contest, but I ran out of time. I also got some other stuff that I wanted to mess with, including bamboo rice and Meyer…  Continued »

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