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Prunes in Pedro Ximénez syrupPrunes have a bad rep. I don´t know why this should be so, but it is. Maybe it´s better if you think of them as dried plums? After all, plums are popular, beautiful, exciting little things with a short season and a winning nature. Prunes are their unglamorous spinster aunt, maybe, but... |
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Friday eveningHere is what´s cooking in the Lobstersquad kitchen right now. Will it be good? I´m sure it will. Laurie Colwin and Smitten Kitchen can´t both fail me at the same time.I´m also poaching some prunes, following a Nigella Lawson recipe from How to Eat, but substituting Pedro X... |
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Italy Travel by Horse or KayakHorse enthusiasts may be interested to know that there's an equestrian route all the way from Marsala, Sicily (see Sicily map) in the southwest of Italy to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia... ... |
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Jim Leyritz Will Soldier On Somehow [MLB]You no doubt recall the legal trouble facing Jim Leyritz, the former Yankee who is free on bail pending his DUI manslaughter trial. Leyritz is accused of being involved in an accident while driving drunk, in which a young mother was killed. Well, last week Leyritz asked a judge to remove a Breath... |
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Nigel Slater on autumn cookingWalk around the parks, the garden, the woods, even the leafier of our streets and there is a mild scent of sweet decay. The smell, that of autumn on the cusp of winter, hangs over our markets, too, with their late mushrooms and game birds, venison and fashionable, purple-ribbed greens. This, and ... |
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Marsala Poached PearsDon't you just love it when you put something together on a whim, and it works out the first time? My friend Garrett had a few extra pears from a baking adventure which I decided to poach in Marsala wine, with some sugar, star anise, cinnamon, and cloves. Star anise has a... |
