Charmed Life
Kimchee!!!!
I often write in this space about how I’ve cooked something or other because I had something or other in the frig/pantry I needed to use up. Along those lines, I’m pleased to report that this weekend I made a terrific soup out of three cans of beans that had been in the pantry so long they…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04/18/11 at 12:14 PM
One of my most enduring food memories from childhood—aside from the time my mother bought 20 hamburgers at Burger King during one of their 29-cent specials, froze them and served them reheated over the course of a month—is sitting at my family’s kitchen table, alone. By which I mean: alone with a bowl of spinach. The dishwasher…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/09/11 at 10:27 AM
Last week I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a good, long while: I made homemade chicken stock. I had roasted a delicious chicken on Sunday and threw that carcass into a stock pot. And I had two other Ziploc bags full of bones from chickens I’d roasted this summer. With all those bones, I…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 10/27/10 at 10:22 AM
The other day my friend Catharine and I treated ourselves to a spa day (half-price, compliments of Living Social) at Bee Beautiful, a charming and friendly green salon in Hunt Valley. We each had a massage. And then, we each had a facial, which, as it turns out, was extraordinary for one simple reason:…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/23/10 at 11:44 AM
In summer 2008, when I discovered that a delicious corn salad could be made by slicing corn off cobs and putting it together with either tomatoes and lime; onions and basil; or really anything, it was a revelation. I’d buy a dozen ears at the market, boil them all (trying not to overcook them as I’m wont…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/07/10 at 01:07 PM
Can you feel it in the air? Or, rather, can you NOT feel it in the air? I’m talking about the plague of extreme heat and humidity we’ve suffered for the past three months. Lord, how we’ve suffered. But, it appears that this hot and hellacious summer is finally drawing to a close. Sure, we’ll have more…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/26/10 at 02:18 PM
With information about every possible travel destination you could imagine visiting available in prodigious amounts on the Internet, it’s easy to plan an entire trip from your desk. Surfing among various sites will let you know where you should stay, where you should eat, what you should do—and what several hundred strangers have opined about it all.…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/26/10 at 01:42 PM
So it’s Artscape weekend which naturally means it’s going to be hot as Hades. Here’s two recipes from this week’s NYT: one good for folks with A/C (it involves the oven) and one for folks without (it involves the blender). I mean to try both very soon.
Savory Bread and a super-easy looking (and…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/15/10 at 10:34 AM
As I’ve said in this space before, I am not a baker. This is largely due to my feeling that following directions closely and relaxing and having fun are mutually exclusive. But once each summer, when the blueberries come in, I turn my back on my natural antipathy toward baking and make the recipe for more
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/12/10 at 01:21 PM
Ever since I first learned about CSAs—Community Supported Agriculture memberships—I’ve felt guilty for never signing up for one. The idea seems like the perfect win/win: regular folks (i.e. non-farmers) buy a share in a farm and get fresh produce directly from the source. The farmer gets some cash and certainty up front,…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 06/29/10 at 11:03 AM
