A few weeks ago Grandma Pellegrini sent me an email. Yes, she does email. She also does facebook. It is the dawn of a new era.She said: "I'm just sitting down to enjoy my soup and my latest triumph in the kitchen. I decided this morning to put my various cast iron baking pans to…
Say that 20 times fast.I made a soufflé. I was determined. I had a 102 degree fever and I made a souffle nonetheless. That should tell you how determined I was.So although this may seem like a strange journey with strange pictures taken by a semi-delirious girl, I can guarantee you will see a soufflé…
When you have eighteen chickens and thirteen Guinea hens in your life, there are a lot of eggs to contend with. It is definitely a nice problem to have. I went on a quest recently to find eggs in the store with yolks as bright as the ones my chickens produce, and I have yet…
I have a mold. I don't know where it came from. It just appeared one day. It's always in the way, it doesn't fit anywhere nicely. It was suggested at one point that we throw it out, but it wouldn't go. So today I finally used it, in honor of our Christmas party this evening.I…
I am always so impressed with people who produce oceans of Christmas cookies of various kinds and dole them out in charming tins. The woman who took care of me growing up has about twenty or so kinds of cookes that she makes every year. She doesn't break a sweat. They are all very different…
In preparation for my book... I've been testing out quite a lot of recipes. These I like to call "Bananas Foster Cupcakes," because they celebrate cream and rum and cake in three lavish bites. (There's cream inside!)I've discovered that to get a truly unbiased opinion on a recipe, it is best to set it in the…
"I just found the best bundt cake recipe in the entire United States," so said my grandmother as she handed me a piece... she tends to modify recipes often, adding a bit of this and that along the way. Some yogurt here, some honey there. So you're never quite sure how it got to be…