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: live from the east coast edition 12 May 2008 10:35 pm
Posted by Tracy in : travel, nepal, pictures, dessert, friends, books, cooking , add a commentGreetings from the Garden State, y’all! Um, I mean, youse. So far the trip has a daily average of meeting up with at least one awesome person I haven’t seen in over a year, and that trend is looking to continue well into the week, to which I say, “Right on!” Highlights so far are as follows (and wouldn’t you know, they’re all food-related):
On Saturday I got to experience The Bent Spoon of Princeton, NJ. I had crème fraiche gelato and rhubarb sorbet, and they were both fabulous. The gelato was like vanilla on steroids, only with a nice fresh tinge of tartness, and the sorbet was amazingly smooth and creamy, like I could easily have been fooled into believing it was sherbet, with cream added. YUM. (more…)
Sunday surprise: Banana bread photo recipe 11 May 2008 7:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, events, baking, dessert, recipes, cooking , add a commentHappy Sunday, all! Some of you (hi, Liz!) may remember this banana bread from this recipe here, which I posted sans illustrations because Liz asked nicely, just a few days before the announcement of Not Quite Nigella’s Banana Bread Bake-Off. Now, at long last, here’s the illustrated version I first alluded to more than a month ago. The finished product looks like this:
which is to say, pretty darn tasty. Now, here’s how to make it: (more…)
