On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday this week, food commentator Bonny Wolf predicted some culinary trends for this year. Among them: pies will displace cupcakes as the new glorified dessert, and junk food will make its way into haute cuisine. My heart skipped a beat when she mentioned ‘restaurant-made Cheeto-like snacks.’
Pie is the new cupcake(?)
3 JanPreviously, on All Things Sweet and Savory...
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Virtually Absent
Recently I’ve been suffering from the nagging suspicion that my internet presence is slowly dwindling down to virtually nothing (pun ever so intended). I miss my Twitter friends, I never seem to catch birthday reminders on Facebook, and I immediately delete all emails from Klout, shuddering at the thought of what my current score must […]
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Meatless Monday: Caprese Salad
Well the tomato plants in my mother’s backyard are producing like crazy, which means lots of tomatoes for me! Fortunately, this fits right into my current lazy, gadget-deprived cooking style (I really can’t wait to move into the new apartment!) as I’ve been making lots of Caprese salads. I don’t know if anyone gets super-technical […]
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Meatless Monday: Cheesy Chard and Pasta Gratin
During the summer, my mom’s favorite activity seems to be giving away vegetables. Now that I’m back in the Midwest (or thereabouts), I’ve become one of the lucky benefactors of her garden’s overwhelming productivity. Unfortunately, I missed all of the asparagus, but she never fails to foist bags full of chard and tomatoes and peppers […]
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A Pollen-y Analogy
Thinking about that meal at Volt, I remembered an article I read not too long a few months ago about the popularity of pollen in dishes. The article itself was on Tasting Table, though I found it because of an installment of What We’re Reading from the NY Times Dining Section. I’m not sure that the […]
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Back with a Volt!
Aaaand I’m back. My poor blog has been virtually nonexistent recently- let’s just say that I’ve clearly not yet learned to be one of those queens of domesticity who can go to work all day, then come home and meticulously photograph a meal as I put it together and have it waiting on the table […]
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