Entries Tagged as 'Food'

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Useful Baking

In the past, I’ve looked at bread baking as something that was optional, recreational. I’ve played with the much-lauded No-Knead Bread technique. I’ve baking (and eaten) more loaves of quick, sweetened breads than I care to count. And yet, I’ve never really considered the fact that I could bake the type of bread I like [...]

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

A Weekend on the Berks County Wine Trail

If you’re interested in a getaway this weekend (February 13th and 14th), all the wineries on the Berks County Wine Trail are offering special chocolate and wine tastings. The Reading Crowne Plaza is also offering special deals on accommodations.

Last weekend (not this very snowy one just past, but the one before that), Scott and I [...]

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Finding Pleasure in Food

Earlier tonight, I went with Scott, Becky and Eric to see Jonathan Safran Foer read from his new book Eating Animals. It’s an exploration of the choice he made to become a vegetarian, while his wife was pregnant with their first child. He said that he was compelled to look at his eating habits as [...]

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Fully Loaded Baked Potato Kettle Chips

Best Kettle Chips ever! Smoky, tangy and with that classic kettle cooked flavor. It took everything I had to keep us from eating the whole bag in one sitting.

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Garden Update

My garden has been in the ground for just about a month now, and it’s really starting to catch up with the other plots around me. I’ve got one little zucchini and bunches of flowers that make me hopeful for many more. The cucumbers are taking over and are blooming with such vigor that I’m [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Chefame Chefayou!

Several months ago, some of our friends started a new project called Chefame (pronounced chef-a-me, don’t be like me and pronounce it chef-fame for months like I did. I felt a little silly when I finally figured it out). The gist of the project is that they gather up amateur cooks with skills (or real [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Dinner Salad

We’ve been having an incessently rainy spring here in Philadelphia. It feels like it’s been raining for months (the only time out from the grey drizzle being the three-day heat wave we had in April). Having grown up in Portland, I try to remain outwardly unaffected when it comes to the rain, mostly because I [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The best of me on Slashfood

I’ve been working on a project that has me sorting through some of the earliest posts I wrote at Slashfood. I’m finding that there are quite a few that I’ve enjoyed re-reading and so I thought there might be a few of you who’d be interested in seeing what I consider to be my “Slashfood [...]

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Fabric shopping

This morning, I picked up Angie a few minutes after ten to head down to Fabric Row, in the hopes of finding some great fabric with which to recover the seats of the new dining room chairs. We went to five different stores and looked at more bolts of fabric than my brain was able [...]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Mo’s famous pancake mix

When I was growing up, my mom was in charge of the regular, daily cooking. She set out boxes of cereal in the morning before school or quickly scrambled an egg or two, made miles of peanut butter and honey sandwiches and prepared baked chicken legs and hamburger scramble until her mind numbed from the [...]