ellaella on Sep 30th, 2007Pie making week is coming
With local apples ripening and our pie-intensive holidays approaching, it seems like a good time to devote five days of posts to making pies, with an emphasis on crusts. Starting October 8 I’ll be providing tips, tricks and recipes I hope will help you to become a better pie maker or to make your first […]
ellaella on Aug 31st, 2007The perfect steak
For many, Labor Day weekend will bring a final flurry of outdoor cooking and often, that means steaks. When I think of the finest Prime beef I’ve ever bought at retail only one name comes to mind: Lobel’s. It’s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and this will describe it for you:
Jackie O bought her meat there
So […]
ellaella on Jul 27th, 2007Basil and pesto
You might be facing an abundance of basil around now, either in your own garden or at farmers’ markets. We’re still a bit away from that stage here in The Little Snowball, but when it’s local and fresh I buy an armful, some for now and some for later.
How much later? A grower gave me […]
ellaella on Jul 6th, 2007Storing produce
Perhaps the weekend will bring a stop at a farm stand or farmers market and you’ll come home with an armload of produce. Where to put it to keep it fresh longest?
Fruits and vegetables do breathe — anyone who’s ever put peaches in a paper bag to ripen them has seen the effect — and some […]
ellaella on Jun 24th, 2007How to: better hard cooked eggs
The first cookbook I ever bought — that’s it on the left – was chosen for one simple reason: it explained how to boil an egg.
I was a sophomore in college, hooked on chef’s salads, and decided to try making them myself. The catch was that I did not know how to make a hard boiled egg. […]
ellaella on Mar 28th, 2007Fast parchment rounds
If you’re going to use parchment in cake pans, there’s no need to buy expensive parchment rounds, nor do you have to go to the bother of tracing and cutting. Here’s the quick and simple way. Tear about a foot of parchment off the roll and fold it four times, until you have a small […]
ellaella on Mar 22nd, 2007Macaroons - what’s not to love?
Note: The url in the photo is my old url. I did not swipe the photo. I plastered the url on it because someone did steal it. Sad, really, when you consider it’s not such a good photo. Oh, well..on with the recipe! They taste better than I can make them look in a picture.
Let’s […]
