Rhubarb upside-down cake
Orchids make me anxious. It's not just the glamorous good looks, the frail stems, the supermodel attitude. It's their habit of dropping dead. Or worse: near dead. Happens all the...
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Egg poached from online
Julia Child offered to teach me to poach an egg. And I declined. I had my reasons; I was in labor. But I regret the opportunity missed. I know how...
Cooking up a classic: Chocolate sauce
Chocolate sauce appeals to the novice cook. It seems so simple. Just warm chocolate. Right? But good chocolate sauce calls for further refinement. I started this project young, which might...
Cooking up a classic: Chocolate sauce
Chocolate sauce appeals to the novice cook. It seems so simple. Just warm chocolate. Right? But good chocolate sauce calls for further refinement. I started this project young, which might...
Cooking up a classic: Chocolate sauce
Chocolate sauce appeals to the novice cook. It seems so simple. Just warm chocolate. Right? But good chocolate sauce calls for further refinement. I started this project young, which might...
Counterintuitive cooking with green beans
Smooth: good. Wrinkled: bad. Standard policy in many a household, especially for linens and skin. Smooth suggests order, freshness, vitality. Wrinkled suggests ruin. Exceptions abound: The crinkled face of the...
Counterintuitive cooking with green beans
Smooth: good. Wrinkled: bad. Standard policy in many a household, especially for linens and skin. Smooth suggests order, freshness, vitality. Wrinkled suggests ruin. Exceptions abound: The crinkled face of the...
Counterintuitive cooking with green beans
Smooth: good. Wrinkled: bad. Standard policy in many a household, especially for linens and skin. Smooth suggests order, freshness, vitality. Wrinkled suggests ruin. Exceptions abound: The crinkled face of the...
Muffuletta: Engineering a sandwich
My robot is old school: Wind him up and he lurches across the desk, orange tin arms swinging, red tin boots shuffling, black tin eyes deep in concentration. And though...
Muffuletta: Engineering a sandwich
My robot is old school: Wind him up and he lurches across the desk, orange tin arms swinging, red tin boots shuffling, black tin eyes deep in concentration. And though...