For the picnic last weekend, I made and brought the food. The two most popular dishes–sweet and savory, respectively–were pies. In the savory department it was an Ithaca pie that I made using beautiful rainbow chard from my CSA. As for sweet, the crowd favorite was sour cherry pie. A note on cutting chard. When [...]
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Pies, sweet and savory
Posted in baked treat, lunch out, tricks of the trade, tagged cherry pie, Ithaca pie on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sonya’s birthday lunch
Posted in baked treat, tricks of the trade, tagged birthday on April 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I cooked lunch for my friend Sonya yesterday to celebrate her birthday which was on Thursday. Knowing that Sonya likes her whole grains and dark leafy greens, I dug deep into my Natural Gourmet roots, and made a medley of dishes to satisfy her inner health nut. You are looking at — clockwise from the [...]
Going out of business
Posted in baked treat, party, tricks of the trade, tagged heating core, roasting red peppers on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of Dave’s from biz school, Tom, is graduating and moving back to DC so he decided to throw a “Going out of business” party for which I had the privilege of making the food. I was told to cook for 50-60 people and so I made several larger dishes that would feed the [...]
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