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: random RSS recipes edition 21 July 2008 6:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : meat, random, monkeys, recipes, people, cooking , add a commentI remembered what else I meant to post about on Saturday night! The wonderful randomness that my RSS feeds bring me, let me share them with you!
First, there was Warren Ellis on cooking steak (hint: “Man cook meat with fire.”) That was July 7. A day later, he clarified his position somewhat: (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…)
Minestrone variations 3 June 2008 9:59 am
Posted by Tracy in : soup, vegan, sundance, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentSo some Thursdays ago I posted my my basic minestrone recipe but I cut it short because I felt like I’d been rambling on for far too long. Today I finally present you with the conclusion to my minestrone saga: suggestions for tasty ways to adapt this soup to almost any season or available vegetable-type ingredient. Here goes!
Recipe: Minestrone 22 May 2008 10:05 am
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, soup, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , 1 comment so farThere’s a minestrone special on at Morning Glory this week, and it’s all right, but I would’ve made it even better. (Sorry, Gail.) Turns out I have a pretty specific idea in my head about minestrone — brothy tomato-vegetable soup with Italian seasonings (by which I mostly mean herbs like basil and oregano), some kind of light-colored bean, and maybe pasta. We’re talking serious Tracy comfort food, the kind I associate so strongly with warm fuzzies that just the idea of it was enough to make me fall in love with this picture of Chiara (ok, the swooning was not hurt by the fact that Chiara is awesome and that picture is really cute, but I digress). Maybe my notion of minestrone is so non-traditional as to be heretical, in which case I’m really sorry, but it’s going to be a while before I can stop using the word, even if it does not mean what I think it means. But I digress. (more…)
