Weekend Cooking: Chef Anne Burrell’s Bucatini all’Amatriciana

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When it’s time for a family party, I’m usually assigned the role of “soda girl”, a task requiring little more than making my way through the aisles of the grocery store, loading a cart with assorted 2-liter bottles.  Honestly, this is for the best, as even my most casual acquaintances know that cooking is not [...]

Weekend Cooking: Kick the Can! by Christy Ellingsworth

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update: CONGRATS TO TRACY Q., THE WINNER OF KICK THE CAN! Before meeting my friend Dishy, aka Christy of The Daily Dish, I’d never heard of Meniere’s disease.  Christy discussed Meniere’s on her blog, describing the sometimes debilitating effects of this inner ear disorder.  One of the four main symptoms is Vertigo, and as an [...]

Featured Book: The Cookiepedia by Stacy Adimando

Anyone want a cookie (at 8:30am)? (photo credit: NAM, 2011)

Title: The Cookiepedia: Mixing, Baking, and Reinventing the Classics Author: Stacy Adimando (photos by Tara Striano) Genre/Pages: Cookbook/160 Publisher: Quirk Books Release Date: September 6, 2011 Source: Publisher From the indie publisher who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children comes a dedicated cookie cookbook that will set [...]

Weekend Cooking/Eating: ChikaLicious

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Last Saturday, my sister and I skipped off to the city for a gastronomic adventure.  Our first stop was Eataly, the 50,000 square foot Italian food emporium, and we followed that up with a trip downtown to a dessert bar. A friend of mine, Katie Ett of Donuts 4 Dinner fame, has been trying to [...]

Weekend Cooking: Pavlova

Honestly, this Pavlova was sublime.  Airy and delicious.

While perusing Table of Contents, a cookbook filled with recipes and anecdotes from authors,  I became fixated on one of Sara Gruen’s (Water for Elephants, 2007) contributions:  Merran Neville’s Pavlova.  From the ingredients, I deduced Pavlova was a dessert but beyond that, I was mystified. After a bit of research, I learned that Pavlova is [...]