Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Wine Buy -- Chateau La Roque
Those of you who love big, powerful red wines should take great pleasure in this week’s Wine Buy, selected by Carol Berman. [more]
Monday, May 29, 2000
A Dove In The Hand
I am lucky enough to live in two very cultured communities – Brooklyn, New York, and Cornwall, Connecticut. I don’t think I need to explain Brooklyn, but Cornwall is a remote place that most of you don’t know a thing about. It is in the northwest corner of Litchfield County, Connecticut (indeed, our local phonebook is called Northwest Corner), just south of the Massachusetts border and just east of the New York border. It is, in a way, a no-man’s land between the more fashionable and easily accessible towns of Litchfield, like Kent and Washington, and the Berkshire towns of Sheffield and Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [more]
Friday, May 26, 2000
Bert Greene's Ziti Salad, The Lavender Question
FYI
For those of you searching in vain for the recipe, Bert Greene’s Famous Ziti Salad is in the Maven’s Diary archive. It’s the entry for June 7, 1999. Just click on June 1999 in the archive list and you’ll see it. As is too frequently the case, the search engine here can’t find it, no matter what key word you put in. [more]
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Four Wine Buys
Carol Berman and I are trying to record all the Wednesday Wine Buys we haven’t yet recorded for this web-site – and those number many. Here’s our first installment. All four, three reds and a white, I notice now, are perfect for this weekend’s Memorial Day picnics, barbecues and parties -- well, what wine wouldn't fit in somewhere. [more]
Monday, May 22, 2000
Curry Leaves and Thai Basil
As you may have noticed, I took a slide again: I haven’t put up anything new in the diary for nearly two weeks. It’s not that I haven’t been working, though. Or been cooking or eating. Today I realized that what I should be doing to make less work for Arthur but more diary items for you is to simply put up questions and answers that I get every day. Yes, I discourage e-mail questions, but I still get them. And, of course, I do answer some good questions on the radio. Let’s see if I follow through with my new resolve to service this diary more frequently. [more]
Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Pineapple Cheese Pie
This is for the “what it’s worth” department. In early April, a listener asked for a recipe for pineapple cheese pie. He said he used to eat it years ago. His mother used to make it or a friend used to make … I don’t remember. I had no recollection of the pie, but surmised from his description that it was a standard cheesecake mixture baked in a pastry shell with canned pineapple filling, which is, in essence, crushed pineapple thickened with cornstarch. [more]
Monday, May 8, 2000
Feasting on Asparagus
To peel or not to peel the asparagus. That was the question last week. I confess: I don’t often peel them, although I know they can taste a tiny bit better when you do. It’s a nicety I am willing to forgo in order to get a big bunch of asparagus on the table without too much effort. Peeling asparagus has to be one of the most tedious kitchen chores there are, vying, perhaps, with peeling fava beans, although I do feel that is a necessity unless the beans are as small as your pinky nail. [more]
Tuesday, May 2, 2000
Leftover Easter Ham
Mrs. G wrote:
“Some wit said the definition of eternity is two people and a ham. I have so much leftover Easter ham on my hands it’s depressing. I was hoping you might put something clever up on your web-site about leftovers. Don’t want to do any cheesy, eggy casseroly things. Himself has a cardiac condition, and I have a temperamental gall bladder. If you have anything clever and Italian I could do with it, that would be great. I don’t always get to listen to your show, but I check your webs site almost daily.” [more]
Monday, May 1, 2000
Korean-style Chicken Thighs
Sorry I’ve been incommunicado for so long. But I thought, before another day goes by, I at least need to put up the recipe that I ran through on the radio today. I have some catching up to do, too – Ann Nurse’s Split Pea Soup, to use up Easter ham; Oma’s Potato Chip Cookies, some Passover recipe revisionism – but I’ll get to those things over the next few days. [more]
