Last month, Amanda brought us some quinces grown here in Massachusetts; then almost immediately, before I even picked them up from her, they started going bad. We managed to rescue enough of them that hadn’t rotted yet and I quickly got to work on my project – kotonjata, a quince candy made from a Croatian [...]
Posts Tagged ‘failures’
Quince, Vermin, and Pestilence
Posted in failures, Uncategorized, tagged croatia, failures, quince on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
when cooking is faster than takeout
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged failures, successes, Wang's on November 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Failure – Wang’s fast food is closed on Tuesdays, which we realized after my daughter’s polite and rational request for chinese food including scallion pancakes, and after I’d decided everything we wanted to order and gotten my mouth watering for our choices. Completely undeserved success: scallion pancakes are *sooooooo* easy to reproduce at home! I [...]