Recipes by Kath
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A Bucket of Bread (dough)I bought this great book Artisan Bread In Five Minutes a Day - and while it does take a bit more than 5 minutes - I have been baking bread just about every other day with the recipes there-in. This is what one recent loaf looked like:wow. this is one blurry picture. sorry.Beautiful, right? And I have, almost single-handedly been… |
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Melissa - This One's For You!We had an excellent Halloween this year. Which is especially wonderful because Halloween for us almost always goes sour: trick or treating plans don't work out, or the "you need a coat/I don't need a coat" fight goes nuclear, or the costume (despite a certain amount of parental nagging) isn't what it was imagined it would be. There… |
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More PieStill thinking of pie. I love pie. Not just desserty pies either, all pies: chicken-pot, shepherds, fish pie. And tarts too - tarts are just topless pies, in my book. Like pizza. Mmmm, pizza. It's perilously close to dinner time right now...So, I have this book, published in 2003, by Tamasin Day-Lewis (yes, that Day-Lewis: sister to… |
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In Fall a Middle-Aged Woman's Fancy Turns to Apple PieWhen I was in high school, I used to show up at my friend Phebe's house in late September early October to find everyone in the midst of making pie. They had this wonderful large kitchen with a round table right in the center of everything on which Phebe, her mom, one or two of her siblings, their live-in babysitter, were rolling out… |
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Back to SchoolWell, we are all just exhausted here. Remember how I was complaining in May about how the end of school s$!#s and how it's s$!#iness always so unexpected. Well, I was being a big baby then, because September is rough and that's all there is too it. The most difficult part being rousing one pre- and one full-on teen each morning from… |
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Taco Night: A Meal in PicturesMy husband bought this:I know.Anyway, it's been sitting around herefor ages. I think he bought it during one of his infrequent trips to Whole Foods in the vain and desperate hope I'd buy a pork loin someday and maybe grill or roast it up. I don't know what it is about pork, but I always seem to forget about it when I'm at the store,… |
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Our Beloved Monster and MeOur oldest daughter has been on the verge of 13 for about 3 years -- though now that the actual birthday is only two months away she seems to have ramped up the process.For instance, yesterday: I thought we’d make a quick jaunt to the bookstore before picking Mad up from camp. About halfway there we got into a discussion about why I… |
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Potatoes, mashed and otherwiseIt is very difficult for me to adequately stress the necessity of potatoes. In my house, though we don’t eat potatoes every day, we could: it is the one starch my children never grow tired of. Pasta, bread, even rice you can only fix so many ways; potatoes are versatile. For instance, last night I made a chicken stew for my… |
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How to Cook a ChickenIt's actually roast a chicken, but I couldn't resist the MFK Fisher reference. Anyway - I know you've missed me. We had a bunch of family things, plus a pile of birthday/Thanksgiving/Christmas stress and I took a little break from blogging here - now, I'm back - and I roasted an awesome chicken the other day that I want to tell you… |
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Turkey. Sigh.I don't know about you, but I just get so tired of coming up with dinner. Which is kind of stupid, because, well, I write a blog about it, but what can I say, I'm human. Yesterday, trolling the Whole Foods, feeling both bored and poor, I stumbled across turkey cutlets. We are mighty tired of chicken, I thought, and tossed them in the… |
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