http://www.carolineandtony.com Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:23:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Follow me to my new site, food for thought. I'll get the archives moved over soon enough, so that all the recipes, at least, will have a new, and more easily searchable, home. http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/15/im-moving/ I've been trying to figure out where my time goes. You all know this feeling -- you're up for hours, you're working hard, you don't seem to make much headway on the to-do list. So I thought I'd pay attention for a day; apparently others have had the same idea. ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/14/a-day-in-the-life/ As requested, the recipe for the cake Tony made me, from Linda Collister's beautiful "Chocolate." 4 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped 1/2 c sour cream or yogurt 1 c brown sugar 2 c flour a bit of salt 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa 1 tsp baking soda 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 c white sugar 2 eggs, separated 1 ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/13/devils-food-cake/ Yesterday I got to sleep in. This is how it went. 4am: Ben crawls into bed with us, or really me --  he knows better than to go to Tony's side. 4:15: Eli wakes. Since he's not nursing at night anymore, Tony's on Eli duty, and gets up to settle him. 5: Tony ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/12/sleeping-in/ Devil's food. With lots of cream cheese frosting. I ate two pieces (today). http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/11/cake-report/ I've noticed a fair amount of retrospective blogging lately; here's my contribution. 2000: I'm a newly-minted PhD, and about to marry Tony, but I cannot remember what we did for my birthday this year, the last one unaffected by children. Dinner out? Party? Probably. 2001: I'm just pregnant and so sleepy I ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/11/the-century-the-millenium-thus-far-birthday-edition/ The usual cooking division of labor around here (and with many exceptions) is Tony: savory; Caroline: sweet. Tony: cooktop; Caroline: oven. Except on my birthday, when Tony bakes a cake. And he always makes something fabulous, often something I wouldn't have tried but truly enjoy. But it's hard, when I'm sitting here ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/10/tony-bakes-a-cake/ Tony and I found this recipe in the Sunday Times magazine a few years ago; the first time we made it, we realized halfway through that neither of us really knew how to fry eggs. A quick consult with Irma rectified that situation, and now this is a standard part ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/09/fried-egg-pasta/ My new column, on The Secret Lives of Dentists, is running now on Literary Mama. Take a look! http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/09/movie-column/ Ben's been grooving along for about six weeks now with his boring but adequate school snack of fruit leather and applesauce. Yes, he did give me a hard time last week that the fruit leather wasn't organic (apparently he's been listening in on our discussions of Michael Pollan's latest book), ... http://www.carolineandtony.com/2006/07/06/the-note-in-bens-lunchbox-part-2/