From Scratch

When I took the Pastry and Baking Intensives at Kump’s there was only one recipe in my repertoire – other than those by program director Nick Malgieri – I felt was divine enough to share with the staff. It was this. It’s a marvelous alternative to pound cake, which I also love, and biscuit-style shortcakes. I like it […]

Blow in her face… Can anyone finish that old ad slogan?
Time for some levity around here. I found a Website called Ads of the World, which showcases wonderful, creative advertising. There’s one page, however, called The Good Old Days which features a few old print ads that remind us how much our culture has changed. […]

The Sunday Times of London has published an excerpt of Carl Bernstein’s forthcoming biography of Hillary Clinton, to be published June 5.
The excerpt, headlined The pain of being Hillary, focuses not only on marital discord but also on the distress caused by mis-steps in Bill Clinton’s political career and their effects on her own ambitions. […]

Every now and then I sit and think about our Constitution and what a remarkable document it is; how fortunate we were (and given today’s level of discourse, how amazing it was) to have had so many great minds involved in the fledgling government. I love the First Amendment. Others cherish the Second, as RJ Matson […]

It would appear that Harry’s life is more valuable than my son or the other nearly 150 service personnel who’ve given their lives.
The words of Briton Reg Keys, on hearing that Britain’s Prince Harry — the one who wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party — would not be serving in Iraq after all. […]

New Hampshire is like Ireland in this regard: if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute. Earlier this week it got cold enough at night that frost was possible. Yesterday reached the low 90’s and it’s almost as warm today.
I always enjoy a good salad, but when it’s hot I actually crave crisp, cold greens. […]

I find her to be among the most self-righteous people I’ve ever known in my life. And it’s her great flaw…

                       –Former Clinton White House aide Bob Boorstin to Carl Bernstein
Information from the forthcoming and competing Hillary Clinton biographies is emerging not quite two weeks before their often-changed publication dates. The Washington Post today says A […]

For many people, the upcoming Memorial Day weekend means a three-day weekend. The holiday also means:

the unofficial start of summer
the official start of women wearing white (the rule holds in some circles)
get out the grills, America, we’re cooking outdoors

Don’t you wish you had a dime for every burger that’ll be cooked on a grill Monday? […]

The publishers of the two upcoming biographies of Hillary Clinton have changed their publication dates yet again. According to The New York Times, Knopf will publish A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein two weeks from today, on June 5, and Little, Brown will publish Her Way by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. […]

If the title is so out-of-date it’s almost offensive, it’s because this recipe goes back to the days when most “girls” thought they had to have a man to be complete. It was a 1954 Pillsbury Bake-Off winner and even though times have changed, thankfully, the recipe’s essential goodness has not.
I like this cake for several reasons. […]

 
Like most people, I appreciate a side dish that takes care of itself, more or less, while I tend to other parts of the meal. When it’s fast and tasty, as this is, so much the better. I make this every other week or so, for it compliments all sorts of protein. I made it […]

Jerry Falwell’s death this week inspired cartoonists as far away as Denmark to pick up their pens and sketch their opinions about his gospel of intolerance. Cardow’s wit was evident in the Ottawa Citizen on Wednesday.
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If you look at the tabs at the top of this page, you’ll see I’ve added one called Useful Links. They’re useful to me and I hope will be for you. Not every link needs to be in the Blogroll, but these are food-related sites and companies I like and use and I’ll be adding to […]

I’m still stewing about two things I read some 30 hours ago, and the fact I read them back to back probably has something to do with it. One, in The Washington Post, said the combined net worth of our current presidential candidates is about a quarter-billion dollars. Think about that figure for a second. […]

I’ve been asked to provide something for a bake sale and I’ve finally learned that, in New Hampshire at least, that does not mean profiteroles, even if they are made from scratch. My profiterole misfire served only to reinforce my local identity as a flatlander, albeit a well-meaning  one.
Bar cookies always sell well and I […]