June 16, 2008
For the past few weeks, I’ve been eyeing Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift’s newest book, “The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions” (2008, Clarkson Potter, $35). I’d flipped through it a few times at my local independent bookstore, but I was determined to not cave in to my little compulsion issue. After the third or forth time I’d picked it up, though, I realized that the book and I seemed to have developed a relationship, and that I was no longer in “whim territory.” I finally plunked down the $35 (ouch) and introduced this little gem to its new home, the precariously stacked pile of cookbooks in my office.
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March 27, 2008
This recipe started life as an experiment and ended up a staple at our house. My original intention was to create a risotto-like consistency with brown rice in my pressure cooker, and by not rinsing the rice before cooking it, it does indeed get starchier than it normally would. Brown rice will never achieve the [...]
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