Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Awesome Thing About Fruit Salad…

18 June 2011

is that you can pick out all of your favorite things to put in it! And! You can leave out the parts of fruit salad that may not tickle your fancy so much. My selections included: mango, pear, apple, cherries and raspberries. They are the fruits I like best, and so that is what we [...]

Roasting Makes Things Taste Better

12 June 2011

Please excuse my Lady Macbeth hands, there has been no regicide here. I’ve just been making borscht, which gives a spectacular “Out damned spot” effect. Does anybody have any tips on getting beet stains off of your fingers? Anyway, what makes this borscht special is that the beets, prior to being added to the soup [...]

Maligned Marmalade

1 June 2011

Part of me wonders if the trepidation with which I approached this recipe is what made it not turn out. Like the Dog Whisperer or a lion tamer would say, “They can smell your fear.” How exactly an orange develops a sense of smell, I don’t know, but those oranges knew I was worried about [...]