Dear Friends, It’s that time of year when Matt Timms gives me and 19 other amazing home cooks 15 pounds of Hormel Bacon to play with: it’s the Brooklyn Bacon Takedown! Last year I served up some some blue bacon crystal meth rock candy dubbed… Read More
“Daisy, this Year of the Horse prediction-shit,” my cousin said, “Is exactly that: horseshit.” I’m normally not a superstitious person , but lately I’ve been susceptible to all this talk about horoscopes and zodiacs. Contrary to what most people might think, the Year of the Horse… Read More
There is a special kind of shame that comes when you tell someone that you have a food blog and the last time you posted anything was almost a month ago. This has not been by choice, but rather necessity. As many of my friends… Read More
Dearest Friends, It’s that time of the year again when the venerable Matt Timms gives me and 19 other competitors 15 POUNDS of bacon to play with for the Brooklyn Bacon Takedown! Last year, I came up with these Maple-Candied Bacon and Spiced Pecan Nougats for… Read More
No new post in ages! Where has Daisy been?! This post was inspired by a recent one by the Perfumed Dandy in which he addressed his own hiatus/absence from the blogosphere. Never fear, dear Readers! Like the Dandy, I am still here 🙂 However, I… Read More
“Nigella does what?!” Steve from Gourmandistan shook his head incredulously and made a face. “She tells you to put all the fresh herbs in the foot of a nylon stocking and to leave the whole thing in simmering stock for an hour!” “Doesn’t it melt?!” “Yeah. You… Read More
How many of you remember The Yule Log Show on television? To those unfamiliar with it, the Yule Log Show was a program traditionally aired on American network television on Christmas Day from about 9am to 2pm. It was perfectly timed to coincide with sitting… Read More
Just in time for the holidays! This addictive combination of maple sugar-candied bacon, Ancho chili and cayenne pepper-spiced pecans, and Bourbon nougat was created for the Brooklyn Bacon Takedown with the help of my downstairs neighbor, a professional candy maker. I posted the labor-intensive recipe here,… Read More
Today is another day of post-Sandy displacement. I have spent the morning plodding around my friend’s apartment in a trench coat because I didn’t bring a bathrobe with me and the mercury is dropping. “I know you have something underneath,” she said, “But it still… Read More
Yes, dear Friends and Readers: I made an Maple-Candied Bacon and Ancho Chili-Spiced Roasted Pecans in Bourbon-Maple Nougat with a touch of Sea Salt and I lost! But I had a great time and met tons of people. Here’s to next year’s Bacon Takedown, and to… Read More
