Author Archives: AmyDStephenson

My apologies for going so long without posting. I will be too occupied to post here for about another week, but then expect to catch up. In the meantime, please go check out my newest blog, 107 Cookbooks, in which … Continue reading →

Another busy week and a reliance on old standbys and leftovers. I did make a berry crisp tonight, though. I started with strawberries and blueberries from the Greenmarket: I squeezed on some lemon and sprinkled on a bit of spice … Continue reading →

Tonight I had a chance to cook with the cast-iron grill pan; it’s been a while since the weather has been pleasant enough to make it seem sensible. So I decided to grill chicken thighs, which I rubbed with a … Continue reading →

Sorry for the long hiatus; I was on vacation and didn’t find time to post anything, though you can find some pictures at my Flickr site (including of some good food we enjoyed). We got home last night and I … Continue reading →

Because “Julie & Julia” will be opening. Who’s in NYC who’d like to get together and go on opening night?

Recently I read Mark Bittman’s new book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating. Bittman gives a lot of good background for why one should reduce one’s consumption of processed foods and of meat in particular, and he describes the … Continue reading →

I made pizza last night. We had watched an episode of Food Detectives that investigated whether the water in New York City pizza crust makes a difference (it does), and that made me itchy to make dough. So I decided … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I posted and I’m going to do a series of relatively short posts rather than one encyclopedic one. So this is a short cooking-oriented post, a stir-fry I made the other week. I sliced and … Continue reading →

I haven’t been cooking very much because I was sick through much of last week. I was well enough to go back to work last Monday but wasn’t fully well until this past weekend, and ended up doing a lot … Continue reading →

I meant to do a big post about egg recipes and thoughts in defense of eggs, but I’ve been down–and I do mean down–with a cold for the past several days. No energy, fuzzy brain; I think I spent about … Continue reading →