November 25, 2008
I’ve been on a crusade to stop wasting produce. Carefully planning the meal calendar before going to the greenmarket and the grocery works great until one of us (inevitably) ends up with impromptu dinner plans and throws off the plan completely, leaving us with less-than-fresh food. With bananas there is just no excuse since they are generally a breakfast food that we grab as we are dashing out the door to work in the morning. This week though, there were bananas left which meant I was saddled with the burden of making banana bread – yeah, some burden.
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November 19, 2008
My mother’s side of the family has always been a little obsessed with the traditional holiday rolls, which look like small popovers and are baked in muffin tins. These rolls are made from a challah recipe that my grandmother found sometime before the late-seventies and are so good that my cousins and I fight over who gets to take the leftovers home after the meal. My grammy, my aunts, and my mother swear that there no other rolls can touch these tiny masterpieces. Until now. Because I’ve bested them.
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