It hit me when I walked in the door of the kitchen: the smell of eggs boiling on the stove. My stomach flipped. If this was how I was to begin my Tuesday cooking stint at Paraclete Academy, I was in for quite a ride. As readers of this blog are well aware, eggs are […]
Faced with a 3-pound bag of short-grained rice, a few half gallons of milk, 2 quarts of heavy cream and lots of leftover candied citrus peel, I got back in the rice pudding game. I admit I was a little stove-shy after last week’s rice dessert debacle (see previous blog post). But I couldn’t possibly […]
I’m used to finicky kids. Mellie, 5, doesn’t like tomato sauce or chocolate, but she and her 3-year-old sister, Paige, can devour a plate of fried calamari (sans hot pepper rings) in record time. Ren, also 3, and Elias, 5, like Nonni‘s turkey soup one day, then push it away the next, saying they prefer the […]
make an angel cake! I said I would only take one dozen off his hands when our friend, Fred, called to say one of his paddle tennis partners — who owns a farm in Dover with 300 chickens — off-loaded three dozen on his bachelor buddy. “I already bought eggs this week,” I told him. […]