And Now For Something Completely Different…
August 13, 2011 · 2 comments
I sometimes write poetry. No, it isn’t food-related, but have a poem anyway.
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August Already?
August 3, 2011 · 4 comments
Wow, it’s August already! I keep hoping to get back to blog-cooking, but at the end of the day, I’m just too tired.
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Asheville Eateries
April 25, 2011 · 4 comments
As you may well imagine, I’ve eaten a few times since moving to Asheville. Here are my thoughts on three of the places I’ve eaten recently.
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Mid-Hiatus Update
March 8, 2011 · 7 comments
Hey, just want to let everyone know I’m still here. I just got a little tired of making bread almost every day and decided to take a short break. Speaking of bread, has anyone started a sourdough mother? If there are any questions about that or anything else on my site, please ask.
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Home Sweet Home
October 12, 2010 · 3 comments
Thank you for all the kind comments you’ve left for me. I’ll miss being in Portland and teaching classes there, but you can bet that I’ll keep this blog alive and will be teaching classes here in Tennessee soon. We’ve arrived safely and begun the long process of unpacking and settling in. I haven’t managed [...]
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Beau (1992-2010)
June 12, 2010 · 8 comments
Jamie Oliver’s TED Wish
March 3, 2010 · 1 comment
Donations for Haiti Relief
January 21, 2010 · Comments are off for this article
If you donate to the America Red Cross by clicking on this link to the Corporate Giving page for Williams-Sonoma, Williams-Sonoma will match your contribution! Makes me proud to teach there.
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Ligurian Baked Polenta
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I’ve always found polenta to be a lot of work, easy to burn, and not really worth the effort and risk. Then I read a simple baked polenta recipe from Liguria in Essentials of Italian Cooking and gave it a try. The result was creamy goodness with almost no effort, a definite winning combination! The [...]
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Christmas Giveaway #3
December 18, 2009 · 179 comments
Congratulations to Jullee for winning a copy of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It. Congratulations to Chris for winning Christmas Giveaway #2! This week I’m giving away a copy of a really useful book for those of you who want to make your own…whatever you want to make. I use this book and find that it [...]
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