Category Archives: Food

Making your own (cultured) butter is crazy simple

Posted on 2014-03-15 by

(With apologies for the click-bait post title — I just couldn’t resist.) Continuing my series of food posts from Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook, I was going to be making her buttermilk lasagne today, but ran out … Continue reading →

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Diane St. Clair’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

Posted on 2014-03-09 by

Continuing my exploration of Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook, today I made shallow-fried chicken and mashed potatoes. I’m not usually one for fried chicken — don’t get me wrong, I love fried chicken, but it’s not exactly … Continue reading →

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Diane St. Clair’s Buttermilk Meat Loaf

Posted on 2014-03-09 by

I recently picked up a copy of Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook. St. Clair and her husband operate a dairy farm in Orwell, Vermont, and supply butter and buttermilk to famous restaurants and gourmet food stores around … Continue reading →

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That’s how it’s SUPPOSED to work (quote)

Posted on 2014-03-01 by

From Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from a Small Vermont Dairy (Andrews McMeel, 2013): We also eat meat, and we raise all of the meat that we eat on the farm. There is no … Continue reading →

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ATK’s Herb-crusted Salmon Fillets

Posted on 2014-02-28 by

[Folks: a lot of you seem to be coming to my blog for this page. Please do me a favor and leave a comment about how you ended up here, and what you were actually looking for!] A few days … Continue reading →

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Long-term update: Braunekuchen and split-pea soup; also, yummy chocolate

Posted on 2014-02-27 by

Last month I made Diane Duane’s Braunekuchen and Joanne Chang’s split-pea soup. The Braunekuchen recipe says they get better if kept in a sealed container for a few weeks; I ate the last two earlier this week, but honestly did … Continue reading →

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Diane Duane’s Braunekuchen and ATK’s cheese souffle

Posted on 2014-02-01 by

A few weeks ago, I said that I was making Braunekuchen, a northern German spice cookie, from a recipe Diane Duane posted on her blog. I made them the Sunday before Martin Luther King Day, and I’ve been eating them … Continue reading →

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OK, I have three fourths of a bunch of parsley left. Now what?

Posted on 2014-01-21 by

Parsley was an unusual ingredient required by Joanne Chang’s split-pea soup recipe, but it only required three tablespoons. (I suspect I used substantially more than that, because, well, I had substantially more than that.) So on Monday afternoon, I opened … Continue reading →

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Joanne Chang’s (cafe’s) split-pea soup

Posted on 2014-01-21 by

As I promised a few days ago, I made the split-pea soup from Joanne Chang’s flour, too. Overall, I’m reasonably pleased with how it came out, although I might do a few things differently. (I should note that Chang does … Continue reading →

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More recipe fun

Posted on 2014-01-18 by

A week ago, I promised an update on Diane Duane’s Tessinerbrot recipe (original recipe here). I’ve now eaten the whole loaf, which is at least one good sign. On the whole, it seemed like a fairly ordinary soft white sandwich … Continue reading →

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