Saturday, January 28, 2023

New Bread Recipe

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No Knead Cheese & Herb Bread I have not been baking bread lately because I can get such excellent bread at the General Bakeshop in Brews...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Starting 2023 Right -- With a Capon

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I have not posted much for the last couple of years, feeling a bit paralyzed by the COVID crisis, although I suffered only a minor case in e...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Le Pavillon, Another Daniel Boulud Success

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We have recently dined at Daniel Boulud's new restaurant, le Pavillon, which is in 1 Vanderbilt, first for our 47th anniversary and then...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

A Somewhat Exotic Meal

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My friend Nancy asked if she could cook with me sometime, and last night we finally did it. We were only four, so I tried not to go crazy. ...

Macarons 2022

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I generally make macarons when Joan is exhibiting at an art fair, to give to customers and dealer colleagues. Not that the other dealers don...

Belated Passover Post

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As was the case before the pandemic, I made the family seder this year. Pestilence and illness reduced our company to ten, and no one was ab...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Back to bread baking

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Olive and walnut sourdough bread I haven’t been making bread for nearly 18 months due to our having to move out of our ap...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

La Rôtisserie de l"Argent: The best oeuf mayonnaise in the world

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I haven't posted lately due to a sort of paralysis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. While I continued to cook, and to read about and stu...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

First Downtown Shopping in 15 Months: A Thrill

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Having been fully vaccinated for eleven weeks, I finally got up the courage to take the subway today, which I had been avoiding for hard-to-...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Matzoh!

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I haven't posted in forever, because I've been cooking so often that I want to be done with it. I have continued to make sourdough b...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Bread Baking in Strange Times (Pain de mic) - Part II

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As the pandemic has proceeded, I have continued to bake bread until recently, when Joan and I vacated our apartment to permit some fairly ex...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Bread Baking in Strange Times (Pain de mic)

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Tartine/King Arthur Olive Loaf June 19, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic, and the attendant lockdown, has been a crazy experience. I have bee...