do love tea bread (or quick breads, or myriad other localisms for chemically leavened as opposed to yeasted breads).
Continue Reading...In the tradition of the Simple Cooking website’s desert island cookbook list, here is my list of stranded-in-the-middle-of-nowhere cookbooks. I have tried to limit myself to five. The links are to Jessica’s Biscuit where available.
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my mother can burn water. she was not built or trained for housekeeping. her mother, my grandmother decided early on that she was destined for greater things and sent her off to school.
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I am on a bit of a rant this morning, triggered by nothing tangible, only memories of things past. This seems the perfect forum to express my consternation.
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last wednesday i made my way back to trinidad for the christmas holiday and the first thing on my agenda was a doubles.
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In this space, I have already waxed rhapsodic about Nigella Lawson. In counterpoint, I will invoke the name of Alton Brown, supreme foodie geek extraordinaire.
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and i spend too much money on british food magazines.
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so, in a fit to clean out my fridge to start laying in supplies for the holiday baking season, i came across a small glass bowl filled with macerated dried fruit left over from my (failed) experiment in making black cake.
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this is a book for anyone who enjoys the sensuality of food. in theory it’s an ‘apothecary of aphrodisiacs’, but it’s so much more, it appeals on a much more visceral level.
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Though I love to experience new things, my comfort zone has weird parameters.
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