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Gingerbread Cake

by Jillian Bedell December 21, 2011

Baby, it’s cold outside. Yesterday was clear and still and freezing, with an impeccable blue sky above. Last night the mercury dropped into the low teens here on the farm and this morning we woke up to dangerous sleety drizzle. Tomorrow night is the longest of our year. So we light up our trees and windows [...]

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Oven Risotto with Sausage and Peppers

by Jillian Bedell December 19, 2011

Risotto thinks it’s so superior. So delicate, so capricious, so high maintenance. A pretty girl who won’t get dirty. At least, that’s how it always seemed. Served in a ring mold in a restaurant, impossible to make at home. Of course, I’ve seen it being cooked, by friends who are better and smarter and worldlier [...]

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Reading: The Feast Nearby, Essays and Recipes by Robin Mather

by Jillian Bedell December 12, 2011

Divorce is not a sacrament. But perhaps it should be. It is a non-compulsory rite of passage and a period of transformation, if you let it. It is the beginning of and the impetus for the story told by Robin Mather, epicurean, Michiganian, and animal-lover, who was left by her husband and lost her journalism [...]

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Braised Lamb

by Jillian Bedell April 14, 2011

We haven’t been cooking very much during the early spring. It must have been spring fever. Or cabin fever. Or cat scratch fever. Or some other blood-born illness driving our internal temperatures above the normal 98.6 that compelled us to go out so often since I don’t know when. Maybe it started in Mexico and [...]

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