Monthly Archives: July 2008
Infuse Your Booze: Making Fruit-Flavored Liquors
Fresh fruit + vodka = summer in a glass, all year round.
I've been making fruit-infused liquors for about 10 years. I get it from my mother, who makes jars of lemon verbena liquor and...
Fly Me to the Moon
Wait, I'll settle for 180 feet up.
Seems like folks are always looking for new and unusual dining experiences. The Boston Globe ran an article today about Dinner in the Sky, a global dining concept...
Country-Style Pork Ribs
Country-style pork ribs are just about one of my favorite types of ribs. They're meaty and big, and absolutely fall apart when slow cooked. The recipe below is a basic one (again, the one...
Cream-Cheese Frosting
This is another one from my mother. It's just the right kind of tangy frosting to top any kind of apple or carrot cake. It's also really good on chocolate cake.
I always make this...
Peach Ratafia
First off, what the heck is a ratafia? (The short answer is a really, really yummy drink, but that probably doesn't help much.)
Merriam Webster defines a ratafia as "a liqueur made from an infusion...
Crunchy Kosher Pickles
Seeing as it's summer, here are the pickles I remember from my childhood. They're the perfect complement to any BBQ.
They're really crispy, and have just the right amount of bite that they don't overwhelm...
Tomatoes, Incoming!
I should start figuring out what I'm going to do with all these tomatoes, which look like they're all going to be ripe at about the same time.
Husky Cherry Tomatoes. I'll definitely plant these...
BBQ Chicken
Slow cooked tonight. The aluminum foil in the back is a smoke bomb full of hickory chips. We don't have a smoker (yet). This is a good way to get some honest smokey flavor...
Perfectly Melty Fondue
I love cheese.
Melted cheese is even better.
Melted cheese on bread is about as close to heaven as I think I can get.
I'm also very much an 8-year-old at heart, and love food that's fun...
Medieval Meat Grinding Party
The venerable Lady Otter is headed to the woods for a few weeks, and needs to bring some lamb meatballs with her, as part of a traditional medieval Indian meal she's making. If she'll...