Home Cooking

RG at Home: Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie!

by zora on July 9, 2012

Never mind that it’s currently too hot to roll out a pie crust: I am here to tell you that Millicent Souris’s new book, How to Build a Better Pie, will save your life. I first made Millicent’s acquaintance at the late, great Queen’s Hideaway. Dessert was pies of a couple sorts. I ordered with [...]

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RG at Home: Greek Frappe for Coffee Snobs

by zora on July 2, 2012

I love me a Greek frappe. When I explain this drink to people, though, it often gives them pause. That’s because the secret ingredient is Nescafe. In today’s militant-foodie climate, saying you drink Nescafe is like saying you eat Rainbo bread, and not in a guilty-pleasure-reminds-of-my-latchkey-kid-days way. Still, I take perverse joy in bending Nescafe [...]

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Danish Dinner

by zora on October 31, 2011

Like I said, I was having a little trouble grasping what Denmark was all about. But then I met up with my friend S—, who helped it seem like a real, distinct place to me. “Tonight we’re going to have a typical Danish dinner,” she said. “It’s what everyone eats for Christmas, and of course [...]

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How I Learned to Cook, long-lost Part 3—or, Time to make the doughnuts

by zora on September 12, 2011

I haven’t written about my home cooking in many months, and probably won’t again for a while (since I won’t be home till January, but that’s another story). But as you’ll see, this doughnut thing—I need to write about it for closure. Years ago, I wrote a couple of posts about how I learned to [...]

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