Today is Dana’s birthday! Whoo for 23! Its fitting to have a cake that combines the best things about all birthdays, drinking and cake. This Lemon Whiskey Bunt Cake is one of my mom’s recipes. It’s one of those things that is easy to make last minute and is always a crowd pleaser. Whenever I [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 20, 2009
Mrs. Kaur
Jaahaan’s mom, Mrs. Kaur is visiting from Delhi for a few weeks. I don’t know why she would visit Syracuse in January with all this snow when the weather in Delhi is balmy and wonderful. I’d been hearing stories about her mom’s obsession with PNC, so I asked for a cooking lesson and Mrs. Kaur [...]
January 18, 2009
in your open-face breakfast
Sunday morning. Freshly fallen snow on the ground. Lots of Homework waiting to be procrastinated. And Dana crawling into my bed…purring like a cat and describing the contents of a breakfast sandwich. She tells me this is the breakfast sandwich to end all breakfast sandwiches. With words like ‘prosciutto’ and ‘cheese’ being thrown around, I [...]
January 16, 2009
no need to knead
I’ve been meaning to make this no-knead bread for weeks by now. I finally got around to it this week. The basic idea of this recipe (which was originally published in the New York Times) is that time does the work for you. Instead of kneading the bread so that it rises, you can just [...]
