Wednesday “whoops!” 17 September 2008 8:32 am
Posted by Tracy in : events, cheese, meta , add a commentNamely, where did Monday and Tuesday (and their respective posts) go? Alas, this week they are not to be. Instead of making excuses, I would like to direct everybody’s attention to La Fête du Fromage, or “the reason I finally got my act together and finished the Myzitrha post.” Mmm, cheese. Check it out!
In other news, I have been completely overrun with spam comments these past three or four days (more…)
Cheese party! Pasta with myzithra, browned butter, and sage 11 September 2008 9:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, cheese, vegetarian, cooking , 2 commentsThis post is my contribution to Loulou’s La Fête du Fromage event, the results of which will be posted Chez Loulou on Monday, September 15. I look forward to the roundup! (Loulou, I’m sorry I didn’t choose a French cheese this time around. I hope this fête becomes a monthly event so I can have another chance!)
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First things first: Apparently there is or once was a pasta dish with browned butter and myzithra on the menu at The Old Spaghetti Factory, but I’ve never had it so I can’t speak to its goodness (or lack thereof) relative to what I made here. Sorry about that. If anybody reading this is inspired to make my version to compare the two, I would of course be very interested in hearing your opinion. Write me!
Now, on with the cheese! (more…)
Recipe: Cheddar-Scallion Drop Biscuits 22 July 2008 8:11 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking, America's Test Kitchen, cheese, recipes, vegetarian, friends , 5 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…)
Recipe: Banana bread 8 April 2008 9:03 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, baking, breakfast, dessert, recipes, friends, books, vegetarian, cooking , 3 commentsI was going to save this recipe for later in the week, but Liz asked nicely, so there ya go. My banana bread recipe is adapted from the one in the original Moosewood Cookbook, which is actually a variation on their carrot cake recipe. Seriously — “Banana Bread” appears on the opposite page from “Carrot Cake” as a slightly-too-long list of substitutions which makes for really tricky recipe reading, especially considering the original recipe makes two loaves and we only have one loaf pan (a situation I hope to someday fix, but today is not that day, and anyway I much prefer having a base recipe that’s easy to double, instead of having to divide everything by two all the time). So. Without further ado, here’s Tracy and Peter’s take on banana bread, as copied into my beloved spiral-bound recipe notebook for convenience, because generally the way this gets made is me reading the recipe to Peter, who makes all the magic happen. (more…)
Food porn: Sexy Mac and Cheese in pictures 13 March 2008 9:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, pictures, geekery, vegetarian, meta, friends, eating, cooking , 2 commentsIt’s like Foto Friday only a day early this week, because apparently that’s just how I roll. Also, how did this get to be Picture Week without my noticing it until just now? I digress. So. Last year the fabulous Chiara asked me for (and I quote) “HARDCORE VOODOO LOVE RECIPES” and after a bit of dodging on Valentines’ Day I came through with Sexy Mac and Cheese, a recipe I have been using to seduce people ever since a cheese cooler failure at Sundance provided me with an opportunity to test both the offerings of Julia Moskin’s Macaroni and Lots of Cheese (the New York Times, 4 January 2006) and more besides (we ended up with four different kinds of mac ‘n cheese, including a “crunchy” hippie-friendly wheat-free version and its near-opposite, pre-made from a box with squeeze-on cheese sauce). ANYWAY. Here is a little photo essay of the various stages of that magical recipe. (more…)
