Okay folks I promise that we didn’t forget about you or stop cooking! I finished Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman’s Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado about a month ago. There were so many recipes in this book that I wanted to make. I have [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
I decided about two weeks ago after a not so pleasant doctor’s visit that I am going to take back my health once and for all! Let us just say that I gained about 20 lbs since 2008 and my doctor was not so happy about that. I used to be about 250lbs. Yeah I [...]
I finished Ruth Reichl’s Garlic and Sapphires:The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise about a month ago on a ridiculously long Amtrak train ride from Orlando to New York. I thoroughly enjoyed the great length that Ruth went to keep herself disguised as she went to review all the restaurants she mentioned in the [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
I have one word to describe my attempt at making gnocchi…”YOWZA!!” To say it was a disaster is an understatement. I believe the picture of my gnocchi speaks for itself. I knew going into this that this recipe was not going to be easy at all for a novice cook. But I figured what do [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Us fabulous ladies from Cooking the Books got together last night at Franny’s in Brooklyn, an adorable restaurant Giulia Melucci (author of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti) recommended that serves fantastic brick oven pizza, and then to a bar called Bar(n) across the street, to celebrate our first book conquest. [...]
I dragged Shaun on Saturday afternoon to Whole Foods because I wanted to make the “Food Club Pork Roast”. The pork loin I wanted to buy was $8.99 per pound. That’s pretty expensive when I wasn’t even sure I was going to be able to make it without burning it! I ended up buying pork [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
I just finished I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. I think one of the worst feelings is when a great book is over. Okay so maybe I am being over dramatic! But I did laugh so hard throughout the book that I am sure the people sitting next to me on the 7 train [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Welcome to our new venture in cooking/booking/blogging! In the vein of ‘Julie & Julia’, we’re a group of High School friends who’ve come together from different places, getting together once in a awhile and sharing our kitchen exploits with one another via the web! We’ll be cooking recipes from various books and sharing our results [...]
