MissWattson

Finishing off the last of the gift bag cookie recipes: I made a lemon not-so-crisp recipe and a Mexican Chocolate Cookie recipe and kneaded them together using my new-found kneading prowess (I still haven't gotten a loaf of bread to rise properly...) Alice Medrich's lemon … [Read more...] about Marbled Cookies…last cookie from Alice

More not-chocolate from Alice Medrich... Cookie number 2 from the musician's gift bags (see previous post) was a simple cornmeal cookie. Sounds like nothing special, but it definitely held its own in the gift bags. These are convenience cookies, as you can wrap them in wax paper … [Read more...] about Simple Cornmeal Cookies

Well, with beer, obviously...but what if you are also one of those starving musicians? Then with cookies! A LOT of cookies... In fact, five kinds of cookies: (Not my) Aunt Tillie's Cornflake Meringues with Walnuts, Coconut and Dried Apricot, Simple Cornmeal Cookies, Lemon … [Read more...] about How do you say “Thank-you” to 10 starving musicians who do you a favour?

It's true, I don't usually eat poutine, what with the cheese and beef-based sauce...but I do love this website: http://www.midnightpoutine.ca and now I'm writing for it. It encompasses all things Montreal, including live music, art, film, news, and my favourite podcast. Now … [Read more...] about Follow Me at Midnight Poutine!

This is the other dish I used the naan to soak up. I think it worked better with the Saag/Callaloo, though. It ends up either too liquidy or sauce-less. Probably a better idea to serve it with rice, but there was no way I was making rice when I had already made delicious naan. I … [Read more...] about Lohbia aur Khumbi (Black Eyed Beans with Mushrooms: “Indian Cooking”

I've recently had a very little bit of encouraging success with saag. It's tricky, because spinach is gritty and annoying to wash and chop properly. It either tastes too chewy because there are stems or it's too bitter, or the pieces are too big. As much as I usually promote … [Read more...] about “Saag It To Me”…what the recipe would be called in the LooneySpoons Cookbooks…but it’s not

Bringing it all together. When you have a whole lot of recipe ideas that sound interesting, you sometimes have to say "No, I just don't see how hamburgers can possibly be served with Duck a l'Orange". But then you remember that mini gourmet burgers are popping up everywhere … [Read more...] about So, how many layers were there?

Assembling the great Bûche... After I made the double recipe of bittersweet chocolate truffle mouse, the Bûche recipe says to line a jelly-roll pan (just a baking pan with rims) with aluminum foil, like I had done for the Chocolate Soufflé pastry (see previous post), and freeze … [Read more...] about The Bûche de Noël: Alice Medrich’s Christmas Log

Bittersweet Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, Dried Apricot Oatmeal Cookies, and old-fashioned Gumdrop Oatmeal Cookies The Oatmeal Cookies, a family recipe, but if you ask me for specific quantities I'll give it to you. Food should be shared, especially cookie recipes. This is the one … [Read more...] about The Cookies Part 2 – Oatmeal Variations on a Theme

Wow, I made it through all the recipes for savoury dishes at the Great Christmas Party 2009. I even made it through the chocolate soufflé pastry layer to go with the Buche de Noel, but I'll save the stories of the ridiculous amount of meringues that remain for the rest of the … [Read more...] about On to dessert: The Cookies Part 1 – Chocolate and Mexican Chocolate Cookies