Open my cookbook cupboard with caution. If you move too quickly, you’ll be deluged with recipe clippings. Because though I have a good many cookbooks, I’m always hungry to try something new. My mother had a similar cupboard stuffed full of both cookbooks and loose clippings. An enthusiastic cook with a large family to feed, [...]
For years, I wrestled with pie-making. I’ve been the designated pie maker ever since we started traveling to the Monterey Peninsula for Thanksgiving and until a few years ago it was mostly a failure experience. A confident and experienced cook, I was baffled that pie crusts Would Not Cooperate. I played by the rules—chilling the [...]
On the day my keys went missing I tried out two hearty fall recipes. The first was a savory panade made from layers of buttered cabbage and rye bread and gruyere cheese. It’s a dish meant for Swiss peasant farmers or snowboarders or anyone coming in from the cold. The second was a bread pudding [...]
