Four for Dinner

It is Tuesday morning, and I just finished baking the cake for S’s birthday dinner tonight. I made a new frosting and changed up my usual yellow cake recipe. I can’t wait to taste it all together. The frosting is…..mmmmmm. It is a “seafoam” frosting, which I decided to try because the regular 7-minute marshmallow [...]

It has been a pretty strange week, dinner-wise. J is on vacation from school, while L does not have vacation. J stayed over at a friend’s house on Tuesday, and S went away for a couple of nights. S returns today to pick up J and take her on a little overnight excursion. So, most [...]

The raviolis that L and her friends made were very inspiring to me. I tried several years ago to make home made pasta. I bought a pasta machine -the old fashioned kind where you hand crank the dough through rollers until it is very thin. I bought a fairly inexpensive model, figuring that if I [...]

After the deluge of last week, I have been in a comfort food mode. We finished last week with a very relaxing dinner with old friends and I made braised lamb shanks (pictures and recipe to follow in my next post). While I was at the market buying the lamb shanks, I picked up a [...]

This is a belated menu for the week. How does time fly by so quickly? Monday: Chicken breasts picatta, risotto with artichokes, green beans Tuesday: Fritatta with potatoes, tomatoes, onion and cheddar; salad Wednesday: Papardelle with bolognese sauce, salad Thursday: Pork tenderloin, rice, broccoli, salad Friday: (guests for dinner) Martini olives in blankets (hors d’oeuvre), [...]

Week 2 of the new year, new decade. Ready for both old and new recipes. Still keeping it easy. Healthy, relatively. Monday: Broiled petrale sole with lemon and butter, Israeli couscous, broccoli, roasted tomatoes Tuesday: Black bean soup (pureed so that it is “broth” for J), European Peasant Bread Wednesday: Carnitas Burritos, salad Thursday: Orrechiette [...]

Happy 2010! One of my resolutions (among the usuals of eat healthier and lose weight…) is to get back to the blog and record our meals again. It isn’t that I haven’t been cooking. I have. It isn’t that I haven’t been trying new recipes. I have. What is my problem? Inertia. Over the winter [...]

Again, I can’t believe how long it has been since I’ve consciously thought about blogging. I’m feeling so much better – almost like myself again. Yet, sitting for any length of time is still somewhat difficult and standing in one place without moving around is tiring, too. I am getting a bit bored and wrestless. [...]

I have been off-line for so long, it feels so strange to even look at my blog. A little over a month haitus, after only about 7 months on the job, and I am truly missing the writing and cooking. I don’t know whether I’ll be able to get back to the cooking or photography [...]

We’ve been on the road and eating out so much, that all S & I want to do now that we are home is to eat in. With the exception of a delicious home cooked meal in Boston, and a great home – boat, actually – cooked breakfast in Maine, we have had every meal [...]