So we all know that the world’s reaction was to a cookbook by Gwyenth Paltrow, star of stage and screen (large and small), hopelessly blond and thin, child of bi-coastal privilege and mother of what I think we’re all just assuming are children (think about...
The real title of this recipe is Macaroni & Cheese (A Few Ways) but I only made one so…full disclosure. Here’s a funny thing: I have never, ever, in my life had Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. I don’t know how that could be since I ate every other...
The next time life hands you lemons and about 12 minutes to cook dinner, remember the first of these two recipes. When life says “you know what? I can’t even give you the lemons today” then you’ll need recipe #2. Both can be made in the time...
I’m categorizing these two recipes together because 1. they’re both very simple and 2. good as they are, they are only marginally “recipes” in my mind. First, Arugula Salad: Nothing more than toasted slices of baguette with cheese and...
I’m going to make a bold statement here so stop reading if you don’t like your beliefs challenged: Pancakes are hard to make. Everybody makes them, or has made them, and yet it’s taken me an awfully long time to perfect mine. Making a...
This is very serviceable frittata but not the best one I’ve ever made. I prefer the thicker, heartier versions I’ve made before use 12 eggs vs. the 6 in this recipe. I have come to truly love and appreciate frittatas. It’s like a great, big, easy...
Right here is a perfect example of what I like this cookbook so much: this is turkey breakfast sausage and it will take you about 5 minutes to make. It’s ground turkey plus some herbs and spices (fennel, herbs de provence, sage), and a little maple syrup just...
If you had told me 2 hours ago that I could love a cookie without butter, or sugar, or chocolate, or butter, I would have taken you by the hand and, in a pitying tone, explained how you can’t have cookies without butter. How cookies were invented, essentially,...
It’s like my husband’s two favorite dishes — fish & chips and tacos — got married. And after making these, I am never getting rid of that man! These are really fantastic. The beer batter is wonderful and easy and even though I did not...
O ne afternoon I spent 135 hours making homemade veggie burgers. It was a recipe from the July 2005 of Cook’s Illustrated and it was a long day’s journey into night, I’ll say that much. You know what a fan I am of Cook’s but this recipe...
Damn, she even makes good french toast. Her value added elements: coarse sugar (I used some demerara sugar that someone — was it you Mary Jenner? — brought me from Hawaii) and real vanilla seeds scraped from a bean. The sugar adds a really nice crunch. In...
Ok, this is getting scary. It’s beginning to look like Gwyneth Paltrow is a very talented cook. How could this be? Even if you think she can’t act or sing she has successful careers doing both of those things, despite your opinion. To find out she...
Ok skeptics, haters and nay-sayers, prepare to question your reality. This is an incredibly delicious soup. One of the best soups I’ve made all year. A soup for the ages. First you should really make Gwyneth’s vegetable stock (pg. 36) because...
When I threw this book out as a possibility on my Facebook page I was stunned at the visceral reaction many people had. “Anybody but Gwyneth!” for example. Or “I just want to smash her face into her own vegetable paella” (ok, I made that one...
Just watched them make these on tv. I think I want to try them.