From NPR, via Twitter - when did they start dyeing cheese orange, anyway?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/07/243733126/how-17th-century-fraud-gave-rise-to-bright-orange-cheese

- I made pasta with broccoli and breadcrumbs yesterday! (I used panko because that is what I had. I keep my bread in the freezer, mostly, so I don't have stale bread around all that much. Also, I am lazy.) I was kind of doubtful about the whole thing; after all, I make a lot of pasta with broccoli, and figured the breadcrumbs wouldn't make much of ( Read more... )

Whoever puts out the display books in the YA section of the library does a really good job, because I often walk out of there with something I hadn't gone in to get. Today it was Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, a graphic novel by Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks. I'd read Hicks' Friends With Boys last year and recognized the style, so it didn't ( Read more... )

I made a cake! Apparently my reaction to cool weather after really hot weather is to make up reasons to take advantage of the stove and/or oven while it's cool enough to do so. Which makes sense when it's roasting a bunch of vegetables for lunch, or making a pot of polenta to eat throughout the week, but...cake? I never bake things, but I wanted to ( Read more... )

So after several days of heat-wave temperatures (90+), we've had two really cool days, which have been lovely. I did things that weren't lying in front of a fan and trying to read! How exciting! Yesterday and today I ( Read more... )

Fresh mozzarella was on sale this week (two dollars off! not bad!), so dinner wound up being open-faced sandwiches on "Tuscan wheat" bread: prosciutto, mozzarella, and fried zucchini. I was supposed to make pasta with the zucchini (and I still have one left, so I might), but somehow this happened. I bet this would be good with pesto instead of ( Read more... )

Trying to keep slightly better track of food combinations I like ( Read more... )

Note to self to remember the sandwich I bought for dinner from the cafe on the corner: sweet potato, goat cheese, and pesto, with pickled onions and arugula, on a baguette. Normally I don't care for pickled onions, but these were tasty and not overpowering ( Read more... )

In other news, toasted French bread topped with strawberry jam and Havarti is really good.

Midnight snack: polenta with butter and honey ( Read more... )