The Next Book: The Essential New York Times Cookbook!
What a formidable task Amanda Hesser set for herself: a comprehensive review of 150+ years of New York Times recipes. Good thing she had no idea what she was getting into. As she says herself: “Had I known then that it would take six years and entail more than…
Off Topic: Pizza
I probably have more recipes for pizza than any other single dish. I am, after all, a Chicagoan. Furthermore, pizza is universally popular, great for vegetarians and omnivores alike, cheap, and always welcome with children and adults. This recipe started with Pam…
Baked Explorations: Quick Skillet Snack Cake
Let me start by telling you I love and adore this cake. I want to get that out of the way because I’m going to quibble with the nomenclature and I don’t want my digression to in any way obscure my main point. Which is: YUM! First of all, “snack”? That’s a nice…
Off Topic: Pasta, Sausage and Bean Soup
One of the reasons I started a blog was that I would sometimes find an absolutely wonderful recipe and there were only so many people I could button-hole about it at work without getting the feeling that they were starting to avoid me in the hallways. This soup…
Off Topic: Sauted Chicken Breasts with Red Wine Pan Sauce
Once again from my favorite week night cookbook comes an amazing dish that is reliably accomplished in 30 minutes and is nice enough to serve at a dinner party. Chicken breasts, in my opinion, are over-rated. They became so popular during one of our many…