Recipe: Cheddar-Scallion Drop Biscuits 22 July 2008 8:11 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking, America's Test Kitchen, cheese, recipes, vegetarian, friends , 3 commentsFun fact! Scallions are green onions; it’s just another one of those East Coast-West Coast dialect differences, or that’s what I learned from this nifty guide to the allium family on Culinate. Drop biscuits are a fun and easy variation on classic buttermilk biscuits, which I have only fairly recently learned to appreciate. This post is for Mom and Dad Boothe, who gave me the subscription to Cook’s Illustrated which brought me the recipe that produced the biscuits that were so delicious last Monday (as well as a different recipe, which convinced me that biscuits were worth eating at all). Here’s hoping good recipe-sharing karma spills over into our apartment-hunting these next few days! (This post was written early Tuesday morning and scheduled for automatic posting some time during our flights to NYC; I hope it worked.) (more…)
Monkey Monday: shiny new things edition 14 July 2008 2:45 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, consumerism, reading, kitchen gear, baking, environment, advice, dessert , 1 comment so farThings to read, toys to play with, secrets I’m bursting to tell…
Firstly: Hey! Awesome! Grist has a new column all about food! It’s called Checkout Line and if you dig Tom Philpott’s Victual Reality and wish Ask Umbra would answer more questions about grocery shopping, well, you’re a lot like me, and Checkout Line might be right up your alley, too!
In other awesome news, (more…)
Recipe: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 10 July 2008 6:44 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking, dessert, recipes, vegetarian , 1 comment so farSomeday I will make a batch of these side by side with a batch of chocolate chip cookies, and try to determine once and for all which is my favorite, but today is not that day. You see, readers, I just used up our oats on a miniature batch of Tracy granola, and because we’re moving pretty soon, I may not restock. No, seriously — it’s hard for me to believe, but we’re out of oats. We’ve been refilling the same cardboard tube that once held Quaker Oats since probably 2002, and it’s probably silly to move it to New York (though at the same time oddly tempting). One particularly precious part of the oft-reused container is this recipe, the one under the lid, which over the years has served us very well indeed. So I am recording it here and in my spiral notebook of recipes I never want to forget, just in case I manage to overcome my obsessive-compulsive packrat tendencies and actually — gasp! — throw something out. (more…)
Monkey Monday: sugar high edition (with pictures!) 16 June 2008 9:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : family, pictures, baking, dessert, friends , 1 comment so farSo Piett and Jen’s visit provided me with an opportunity to use up some of the ridiculous overstock in our pantry, which quickly turned into an excuse to make what Peter and I refer to as “a big, dumb dessert” — in this case, white cake with strawberry-almond filling and buttery white frosting:
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
