Month: May 2007

RECIPE 19: Fresh Pasta Sheets with Parsley

RECIPE 19: Fresh Pasta Sheets with Parsley

                      -= Exported from BigOven =-                    Fresh Pasta Sheets with Parsley The whole parsley leaves rolled into this pasta make it especially pretty but you can easily leave them out. Simply omit Step 3 of the recipe. Recipe By: Serving Size: 8 Cuisine: Main…

10 on Tuesday: Ten Things Most People Don't Know About You

10 on Tuesday: Ten Things Most People Don't Know About You

From this page comes this Tuesday’s question… What are 10 things most people don’t know about me? In no particular order… I am a scuba diver. When I was in high school, I used to wear a ‘rat tail’ in my hair (think mullet but the ‘party…

Reading: A Meal Observed

Reading: A Meal Observed

I am reading Andrew Todhunter’s A MEAL OBSERVED. It’s a magazine-length idea that he’s turned into an amusing little book, combining history and experience with a sheaf of helpful culinary notes. The book recounts their meal at Paris’s Taillevent, “a Michelin three-star restaurant considered by many critics to be the finest in France and thus the world”.

A Meal Observed
Interestingly, Todhunter is not a ‘foodie’ — indeed, his first couple books were about extreme sports – though I think he downplays his ignorance of the food world for the purpose of the book. The first few chapters of this book irritated me because Todhunter would provide a bit of information about the restaurant and then launch into a recollection of dining with his father as a child or other nostalgic claptrap that I feel is unnecessary and misplaced in this book. Happily, the latest chapters I’ve been reading have gotten away from this indulgent approach; I hope this trend continues.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3

Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3

After thinking about it for far too long, this morning I spent some time upgrading my WordPress installation to 2.1.3, the most current version. I had to update a bunch of plugins to their most current version and then deactivate them one-by-one, install the new…

RECIPE 20: Cauliflower and Crab Ravioli

RECIPE 20: Cauliflower and Crab Ravioli

                        -= Exported from BigOven =-                      Cauliflower and Crab Ravioli These impressive supersized ravioli are constructed with large rectangles of homemade pasta that are dotted with whole parsley leaves and filled with the unexpectedly alluring combination of crab and cauliflower. Recipe By: Food…

Reading: The Supper of the Lamb

Reading: The Supper of the Lamb

I am reading THE SUPPER OF THE LAMB by Robert Farrar Capon. My friend Mary W suggested it to me, and I trust her taste in books so much that I ordered the book (and somehow ended up with two copies) sight-unseen. If the first 15 pages are any indication, I am going to enjoy this book very much! The author’s gentle tone and easy sense of humor left me wishing I had more time to read it this afternoon! Here are some excerpts from reviews posted on Amazon.COM:

It is a book about food, spirituality, ferial and festial cooking (ferial being cooking done with leftovers; festial being the type of cooking that creates leftovers), and reflections on life and reality. Worth buying simply for his devotional reflection on the beauties of an onion. There is obviously tongue-in-cheek here, but there is also great spiritual depth. The theme of ferial cooking is transferred to a kind of manifesto on ferial living. Capon sees food, and life as well, through a lens of wonder. Capon’s book is really a recipe for living life more fully. To read this fine book is like sitting on a stool in Capon’s kitchen, listening to this old-school master talk (as he slow-cooks) on subjects as diverse as onions, knives, wine, love, dinner parties, and baking soda.

It thrills me to know that Capon has several other books about food as well, so if this turns out as well as I am hoping, I have more of his works to enjoy!

Another day, another WordPress upgrade (2.2.0)

Another day, another WordPress upgrade (2.2.0)

Just a few days after I upgraded to the previous version of WordPress, the new version (2.2.0) comes out. I upgraded today, and it seems to be working well so far.