I heard about a pre-1984 Better Homes recipe for a refrigerator bread that you could make, say on Sunday, and leave in the fridge.
Continue Reading...I admit I am not fond of the traditional hours chefs keep and I am not interested in spending every weekend and holiday cooking for strangers while I never see my own family. I guess I’m selfish that way. What I do want to do, as I’ve said here several times, is teach other people how to cook for those they love and care for in their own homes.
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Since our first sojourn to Zola in April, we have been jonesing to go back. The food, the service, the ambience… it’s an amazing place and Debra Paquette is an amazing chef.
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I wish I had tales to tell that involved me being so busy with Christmas cooking and endless party giving that I haven’t had time to think about posting. Sadly, the truth of it is that I’ve been up to my eyeballs in retail. I really enjoy both my jobs, but working 60 plus hours in the weeks leading up to Christmas left me drained and Christmas itself went by in a whirl.
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or the saga of Winnifred’s cakes.
About two weeks before Christmas we decided to attempt the next stage of Winnifred’s black cake recipe. We started with four different sized cake pans, three of which had been bought in the last month for this specific purpose, the other pan was a gift I’d bought for Victoria on my very first visit. We took the cake pans; one 8″, two 9″ and one 10″; to the dining table and cut patterns out of parchment and unprinted, brown paper, grocery bags to line them.
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Between cooking school and work, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to decide what it is I really want out of all this. The false glamor of a television show has lost its appeal (& no I didn’t, finally, send a tape in). At work I’ve met literally hundreds of people with one thing in common – they love to cook.
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in the Caribbean there is tradition of Black Fruit Cake at Christmas time, making this cake is an artform, my grandmother; Winnifred; was one of its masters. I’m reproducing her recipe here as it was passed on to my mother and now to me. reading my mother’s handwriting to transcribe here, i’m realising that this is not a single cake recipe and by my calculations it may be too late to get started on cakes for this year.
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Since moving to Nashville last November, I have lamented the absence of a Fresh Market here. That’s changed now that the company has expanded into Brentwood
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I know that artisans and bread purists will be distressed by the whole bread machine thing. I do make bread by hand fairly often.
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I know that artisans and bread purists will be distressed by the whole bread machine thing. I do make bread by hand fairly often.
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