So, I don’t know what’s going to happen to this blog over the next few weeks, as a pandemic is causing shortages and grocery store chaos. Our local Trader Joe’s has had a line to get INTO the store that stretches around the parking lot, so I haven’t even bothered to try to go there.… Continue reading Week 8: Dinner: Changing The Game – Chris’s pick
Week 8: Dinner: Changing The Game: A Cookbook
*Note: this post was written pre-pandemic shutdown of pretty much everything. The tone of subsequent posts will change quite a bit, but I needed a tiny bit of normal before delving into the world of what grocery store shortages and crazy lines do to our cooking lives. That, my friends, is A LOT of colons… Continue reading Week 8: Dinner: Changing The Game: A Cookbook
Week 7: Sheet Pan Suppers – Chris’s pick
One of the best moments during Chris’s cooking extravaganza from Sheet Pan Suppers was when he got everything prepped, put it in the oven and was like, “uh…I don’t have anything to do, for a while.” Mostly because both of us are so used to incredibly labor intensive recipes that the ones we chose from… Continue reading Week 7: Sheet Pan Suppers – Chris’s pick
Week 7: Sheet Pan Suppers – V’s Pick
Back when I was working outside the home, and a single parent, I was desperately searching for ways to get dinner on the table that didn’t involve spending a ton of money on food delivery. Granted, I am lucky enough to live in NYC, so our food delivery options are legion. And tempting. Molly Gilbert’s… Continue reading Week 7: Sheet Pan Suppers – V’s Pick
Week 6 Guest Post: Ice Cream and Friends
We interrupt this blog to bring you a dessert – not dinner. My daughter, Georgia, decided a couple of weeks ago that the thing she wanted to make the most was Baked Alaska. I have no idea WHY she wanted to make it, but I figured, why not? She and I searched through our cookbook… Continue reading Week 6 Guest Post: Ice Cream and Friends
Week 6: Small Victories – Chris’s picks
Continuing on with Julia Turshen’s Small Victories, Chris chose the Crispy Fish with Bacon + Chives (page 206) for his recipe this week. He served it with baked steak fries (chips) and a salad, both his own original creations, and both of which were fantastic (spoiler alert, so was the fish). Chris said that he… Continue reading Week 6: Small Victories – Chris’s picks
Week 6: Small Victories – V’s picks
I can’t remember how, or why, I first came into contact with Julia Turshen’s work. It’s probably through the New York Times Cooking site, or maybe through one of the many cooking magazines I subscribe to. Regardless, the second I heard about her, I knew I wanted to buy her books. This week’s book is… Continue reading Week 6: Small Victories – V’s picks
Week 5: The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook
Both Chris and his daughter, Lucinda, are Skyrim fans, so I bought The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook for Chris over the summer. I don’t play video games much – wasn’t allowed to as a kid (except when I could sneak some time in on my friends’ Nintendo 64) never really got into video games…… Continue reading Week 5: The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook
Week 4: Barefoot Contessa Foolproof – Chris’s picks
As promised, part two of our encounters with Foolproof, one of Ina Garten’s cookbooks. Chris had never cooked from an Ina Garten recipe before, although he’d eaten plenty of stuff that I’ve made from her recipes, most notably her Pastitsio (Food Network recipe, a free link), a personal favorite, as it fairly accurately replicates the… Continue reading Week 4: Barefoot Contessa Foolproof – Chris’s picks
Week 4: Barefoot Contessa Foolproof – V’s picks
V here: I first picked up an Ina Garten cookbook at Costco, back when they used to sell books, for $12.99 (the price tag is still on the cover). After cooking a couple of her recipes, I picked up a few more. Now I’m up to four of her books, and Foolproof is the only… Continue reading Week 4: Barefoot Contessa Foolproof – V’s picks
Cooking the Books 