One of my favorite things about a summer BBQ or Picnic are the side dishes. Chip and dip platters, roasted veggies, kabobs, cole slaw, your almost full before you even dig into a burger or dawg. My new summer side dish love is the versatile pasta salad. I’m not talking about the stuff you buy [...]
Read more →One of our favorite Bros, Matt Studner, celebrated a birthday yesterday! Naturally, I took this opportunity to bake delectable treats and to show off my goodies to you fellow crows. Enjoy! Chocolate Cupcakes Cake Ingredients: 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 cup boiling water 1 1/3 cups flour2 tsp. baking powder1/2 tsp. salt1/2 cup butter1 cup [...]
Read more →My sweet tooth has been reigning over my cooking recently! After one failed attempt with my Aunt Janet’s chocolate fudge recipe, I swore off candy making for a while. A couple of days ago I was feeling saucy and decided to give it another go. This recipe is not difficult and the ingredients are common [...]
Read more →Has anyone seen Food Inc. yet? I’ve heard good reviews! For us Boston Crows its playing at Kendall Square, Landmark and Coolidge Corner if anyone wants to join me!
Read more →Ahh, glorious success! As many of you know, I am not the most neat and tidy cook you’ll come across. Generally speaking, there is a slightly crusty patch of food stuffs near/above the back right butt pocket of most pants I own. Never again! For, I have achieved womanly success in making, what I see, [...]
Read more →Assuming that summer actually arrives, this Summer Produce Guide on Food & Wine’s website has great potential for inspiration.
Read more →Despite the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad weather we are being bombarded with here in the northeast my mind is still turning to summer and summer foods. Particularly my favorite of all hot summer take-out meals: the fish taco. This West Coast originated masterpiece comes in many forms; some bad, some good and some absolutely [...]
Read more →All of this rainy cold weather is forcing me to bust out some hearty winter recipes. Rather than being outdoors grilling up some kabobs and burgers, I was tucked inside my kitchen blasting my oven conjuring up some Shepherds Pie. Growing up, Shepherds Pie was one of my dad’s “go to” meals he fed to [...]
Read more →This was an interesting weekend that lacked the normalcy of weekends past. Sunny weather, goodbye parties, and a sighting of someone who looks like me reading the book I’m reading (In Defense of Food) on BART. ….and I feel asleep last night to a room of 3 boys trying to explain why they can’t just [...]
Read more →Pasta making: Great success! And holy moly, I never want to eat pasta out of a box again. It’s an entirely different meal. Using this great book by Pasquale Bruno (replete with black and white photos of hairy, Italian wrists serving up dozens of what I am sure are delicious dishes but what all look [...]
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