From Scratch

This is one fool I’ll suffer gladly and it doesn’t have to be a raspberry fool. Strawberry fool, blackberry fool, blueberry fool are all welcome. Even red currant fool, which is why I learned to make this in the first place.
This dessert is a cousin to the trifle and goes back hundreds of years. In […]

6/12 Update:  The show ended a few hours ago, the “spoiler” was wrong. My recap of the finale is here.
Don’t worry, no visible spoiler here, but did Bravo accidentally reveal the winner of Top Chef 4 Chicago? I can’t believe it would happen, really I can not. It’s probably benign. But judge for yourself.
On its […]

This quick and easy recipe of angel hair pasta and shrimp delivers heavenly flavors but can be made in roughly the time it takes to boil water and cook the pasta. Dinner’s on the table in 15 to 20 minutes.
There aren’t many steps here, but when the garlic and oregano were in the pan with olive […]

Editorial cartoonists around the globe weighed in this week on Hillary Clinton’s refusal to quit the Democratic presidential race, despite impossible delegate math and the party’s coalescing around Barack Obama in the name of unity. I didn’t see a single one that took her side.
From Canada, Tab of The Calgary Sun went beyond criticism to sketch out […]

My mother’s been on my mind a lot this week, with Mother’s Day just ahead. Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of making cookies with her, especially when she’d dig out the cookie press to make these spritz cookies. Like millions of American families, we always had spritz cookies at Christmas, but my […]

Last night, after Barack Obama’s victory speech in North Carolina, David Gergen said it was the beginning of the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Gergen is a rarity: he put aside partisan politics after serving in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan White Houses when he agreed to serve the country as an adviser in Bill Clinton’s administration. His […]

It’s not enough that millions of American freezers are stocked with tubs of that chemical cocktail called Cool Whip. Now, Kraft is about to introduce a less taxing variety at next week’s Food Marketing Institute show in Las Vegas.
As Emily Bryson York wrote in Ad Age, Kraft is only responding to its consumers:
Consumers didn’t want […]

Cinco de Mayo is tomorrow but there’s plenty of time to make this classic. It only takes about five minutes, even less if you start with a can of tomatoes which, sometimes, is unavoidable.
Some people use the terms pico de gallo and salsa interchangeably but they are different. Salsa, the most popular condiment in America, […]

It’s been a horrid week for Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose Labour party was routed and repudiated at the polls in London’s mayoral race. Eight-year incumbent Ken Livingstone is out, Conservative Boris Johnson is in and is already calling for Labour to remove Brown.
Brown, for his part, called it a “bad day.” Bad day? […]

And who isn’t a fan of The Run for the Roses? Don’t miss That Horse Race Pie – a recipe and the story behind it — from my archives. The race can’t be used in the name because of trademark restrictions.

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This moist bone-in pork roast, with a reduction made from apple juice, is a perfect recipe when you want a main course that’s OMG delicious but requires little work. When carved at the table, it’s impressive too.
It’s the dish I referred to in Opportunities to Stretch a Food Budget and it’s one of my favorites. The pork gets […]

Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech.
Perhaps only George Bush would say “awesome speech” to a pope, but he did, when Benedict visited the White House in mid-April.
See for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXwqQFS8t6o

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