by Julie du Pont | Dec 5, 2012 | Starter, Week Night
I am not sure you’ve noticed, but it is serious Fritter-mania out there. I got an email this morning from Smitten Kitchen. It is all about fritters. I open up the New York Times, they have a recipe for fritters. I think there may have even been a fritter...
by Julie du Pont | Oct 31, 2012 | Week Night
We were largely spared by the hurricane, a.k.a., Super Storm Sandy. We feel lucky to just have only lost power (like 90 plus percent of Darien, CT). No flooding. No roof caved in from fallen trees. No large trees down on our property. We witnessed all of these...
by Julie du Pont | Oct 25, 2012 | Main, Week Night
I happened to have a decent amount of pork shoulder hanging around the refrigerator from Sunday. Apparently, when you cook a 7 1/2 lb hunk of pork (a.k.a. Milk Braised Pork Shoulder) for a family of four and a good friend with a really cute three year old, you get...
by Julie du Pont | Oct 19, 2012 | Main, Week Night
I work. I commute. I cook. Five days a week. Ok, sometimes I cook just four. Some nights, the only thing I can muster up the energy to make is meat sauce over zucchini and farfalle. It’s my “one step away from ordering a pizza” meal. So let me...
by Julie du Pont | Oct 14, 2012 | Week Night
Don’t try this at home. Seriously. Unless you happen to have leftover “Lightening” Flank Steak, a too large zucchini purchased 5 days before from the farmer’s market, some baby spinach (but not enough to make a salad), an onion, some garlic,...
by Julie du Pont | Jul 16, 2012 | Main, Week Night
Sometimes cooking simple is the best –particularly on evenings where all you want to do is collapse into your couch. On exactly this type of evening, I grabbed a pork tenderloin at Trader Joe’s, opened my spice cabinet and invented my own special dry rub...
