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 [...]

Weekend Cooking: Pepper Steak

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I spent the entire day in the kitchen preparing meals for the month (again!) and wanted to share a particularly easy and yummy recipe with you as part of Beth Fish Reads Weekend Cooking Challenge.  A few weeks back, a spiral-bound cookbook caught my eye at a tag sale, and I snapped it (and two [...]

Kitchen Confidential

Armed and dangerous!

As my summer winds to a close and hectic, long school days loom on the horizon, I’ve been thinking about putting together weekly menus with easy, new-to-me recipes–Molly is my inspiration!  I already own several Martha Stewart and other more traditional cookbooks, but the recipes are labor intensive and too fancy-schmancy for our everyday use.  [...]

Review: My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster

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Title: My Fair Lazy Author: Jen Lancaster Genre/Pages: Humor Memoir/384 Publication: NAL Hardcover; May 4, 2010 Rating: 3 Bookmarks Source: Review copy courtesy of NAL In her latest installment, Jen Lancaster is on a journey of self-improvement–a JENaissance–but her sharp wit is a bit dull on this particular trip. Jen Lancaster’s crusade to become more [...]