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Thank you to the Pablove foundation http://www.pablove.org/home/ for donating food, and to all friends who helped prepare this recipe for 60 at Los Angeles’ Ronald McDonald House on Dec. 18th: Begin by heating a few drizzles of grapeseed oil in a medium sized pot. Add an onion, chopped, and cook it some (til it twinkles). Toss into the pot: 3 [...] (Things you wrap in foil) Baked Yams or Sweet Potatoes -400′ oven, holes poked into them with a fork, olive oil rubbed on, wrapped in foil and placed directly on rack for an hour. If your hotel room has a microwave, I learned, that works too. Wrap each poked yam in a paper towel and check [...] When you’re out in the world kicking ass sometimes you get too busy for fussing with pie dough. But you’ve still gotta eat. We’ve all gotta eat. Pie. Thanks to two satellite sillypants correspondents here are two sensible tricks with frozen pie crust: <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/us/09buffer.html?ref=health”>Kelly’s</a> Quiche Ingredients Meatballs make the man, says Artemio with the arch of his back while he is crouched over bus tubs of raw pork, ground and parmesan, and milk and oregano and veal and things, knees on the concrete and tile second time this week, producing same results, January cold floor, icy mornings, steaming sip, numb after noon, delayed for dinner, abbreviated in rest, some mornings we [...] I. Sweet summertime of New York’s empty city The taller the tower the hazier the cloud
Ring around my raspberry flavored mind, devoured The shape of an egg reminds me what we like to see
In New York the vinegar is wine In New York there is only fruit and labor The bread comes as quickly as they can bake it up comes as quickly as is, [...] I was just checking out this (sort of but not that old) picture of the pastry station at ‘Gusto,’ in a basement off Greenwich Ave in NYC. For about a year this was my corner of the universe! When I moved to Los Angeles I went to see executive, superstar pastry chef Sherry Yard because friends in New York told me she was [...] My grandmother Loretta Herman’s spaghetti sauce: Brown 2 lbs. of ground beef in a large, hot, pot. Begin to slowly cook diced salt-back pork off to the side in a seperate pan. When the ground beef is well browned, season with salt and pepper, and add 1 chopped onion. Cook until onion becomes shimmery, then add 2 cloves chopped or [...] Put into 450′-500′ oven after pouring plenty of cider over top of pears in a baking dish. Add a cinnamon stick, and roast 1-1 1/4 hours, basting four times. Add more liquid if it looks like it is going to dry out. Serve with the thickened cider ladeled over each pear. Roast for an hour, basting halfway through. “Do it [...] Pumpkin Pie I learned in cooking school: 24 oz. all purpose flour, 8 oz. sugar, 1 ½ t. baking powder, 1 t. salt, 8 oz. butter worked throughout until it disappears, and 5 eggs to bring it all together into a mass of dough and chill it 1 hour. If you are in a really dry [...] |
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