Since I began working my way through Mark Bittman’s “101 Simple Salads for the Season”, I’ve not quite been able to keep up with the goal I set to make at least five salads in a seven day week. Most of the time, it’s simply that I was missing a key ingredient, or I hadn’t [...]
August 2009
I haven’t always been a contrary person, but when I saw the August challenge the Daring Bakers were to task themselves with smack in the middle of the dog days of summer, I knew I wanted to work with a light cake and feature some aspect of the summer fruit that is so plentiful at [...]
I’ve always been someone who enjoys a great salad, so it should be no surprise that I’ve become quite comfortable working my way through Mark Bittman’s 101 Simple Salads for the Season. The 12-page print out is showing signs of wear with jottings of ingredients I’ve added, dates I prepared each that I’ve made, and [...]
I’d like to believe the weather we’ve been enjoying is here to stay, but I know our small slice of Paradise much too well. Instead of the often sweltering heat we experience in August, we’ve been treated to grey skies, cool, moist breezes, and yesterday, fat drops of rain that teased us late in the [...]
When all else fails, we still take photos of our food, right? I’ve actually finished my Daring Baker challenge ahead of time and am plugging along on my Bittman salads. So many recipes, so precious little time. Seriously. I’ll be back…
I’m pleased to say that I’m on a roll with Mark Bittman’s “101 Simple Salads for the Season” and surprisingly ahead of my original plan. My twelve-page print out from the New York Times, as many of my other cookbooks, is beginning to look respectfully used. With four recipes completed in five days, and a [...]
