I call this a pork pot pie because a British pork pie is something different. ThisĀ is actually an elaborate version of a pork, apple, and (hard) cider pie we made to see my friend Mary off last spring, tinkety tonk, old fruit. (Not gonna lie, I am kind of secretly hoping this pie and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2014
A tiny, naked carrot layer cake + cream cheese frosting
Look at this unforgivably bijou cake. Punish it. Hurt it. Eat it. Like my mother here: She’s a great lady and following in her example is recommended. I made this as a celebration cake. If you’ve never made such a small cake before, you might wonder how on earth this would serve more than a … Continue reading
Egg, bacon, & mushroom noodle soup, livened up with komatsuna
I used to think that I didn’t much like fry-ups, save for that one supremely healing one in a proper greasy spoon the morning after I was dumped in a bar (via text, the two-timer). But then I went to Rye and understood the beauty of a fry-up: if every individual component is decent quality, … Continue reading
Blood orange marshmallows, some of which are chocolate-covered
I know I’ve only been posting sweet things lately. It will end soon, I promise. In the meantime, I hope this will please you: I went through a bit of trouble to get these to work–when marshmallows go wrong, they go really, really wrong. Oh, but when you get it right… These have a delicate … Continue reading
Pear, dark chocolate & black sesame brownies
I dunno what you’re doing (or not doing) for Enforced Romance Day. However you look at what people say about Valentine’s Day, there’s always an undercurrent of, ‘If you really cared about your partner, you’d show your feelings in x manner.’ And then a sub-undercurrent of: ‘If you had any self-respect, you would behave in … Continue reading
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