Harlem Omnivore

Ch-ch-ch-changes

leslieanne — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:43:19 +0000

Hey everyone! I’ve moved my blog! Check me out over here:

http://justlikemommade.wordpress.com/

Oh the horror!

leslieanne — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:29:35 +0000

Oh Lion Brand. How I love your cotton bamboo, but your center pull ball is a joke.

You talkin to me?

leslieanne — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:57:36 +0000

There is a great episode of “30 Rock” where Jack (ie Alec Baldwin) gets into a fight with his brother (Nathan Lane). As they start to trash talk, they eventually raise their fists and apparently they like to name their fists. Now I have my own crazy names for my fists…so watch it buddy.

Wanna get past me? First you’ll have to get past

Dolores Keane

and

Robert Abbinanti

Oy

leslieanne — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:40:43 +0000

I’m having a few technical difficulties over here. Sorry some of the pics have disappeared. I’m trying to figure it out.

I should be posting about my vacation and the recent guac off in the next couple of days! Stay tuned!

Vacay!!

leslieanne — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:39:50 +0000

I’m on vacation on Shelter Island, that’s why you haven’t heard from me! I left Monday and will be back tomorrow. I’ll tell you allll about it!

Second time around

leslieanne — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:07:38 +0000

Last night I tried my hand at making gnocchi. (I tried my hand at it about 5 years ago and it ended badly, remember I don’t handle rejection well)

I decided to try Mark Bittmans’ recipe because it was literally only potatoes and flour, I added a little lemon zest for some zing! I figure that couldn’t be too hard, right? Well, they turned out pretty lovely! They were light and fluffy, only a little mushy. Not sure if the mushy-ness was due to over cooking, or if they needed the egg that was present in every other recipe I looked at. Either way they ended up being easy, and tasty and I will definitely be experimenting with them again and soon!

It's like a choo-choo train of starchy goodness!

Memories

leslieanne — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:21:50 +0000

This used to be The Point knitting cafe where Jane and I would hang, drink coffee, knit and chat with some great knitters. *sigh*

Can chocolate be adorable?

leslieanne — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:15:00 +0000

I love it when great design meets great food.

What’d you call me?

leslieanne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:11:57 +0000

A tart, that’s what.

Don’t ask me why, but I’ve decided to conquer “the tart shell”. In the past I’ve just bought your average frozen pie shell. Always a success, but not too exciting. I’ve tried making my own shell a couple times, but they have always fallen short. Then I saw a recipe in the Times for a delicious sounding tomato tart that needed a savory tart shell. I got all kinds of excited and immediately headed down to the Union Square farmers market to get some tomatoes (in my head I said that as too-mott-toessss)

Fast forward two days later to me giving a lound grunt of defeat followed by me throwing my tart dough to the ground. Lets just say I don’t take rejection well. My fabulous, loving, and above all, patient boyfriend went down to the bodega and got me another stick of butter and I tried again. This time went mildly better (think Frankenstein with tart dough) and we finally ate dinner around 10pm.

So dear readers you and I may ask, what happened? Where did things go horribly, horribly wrong!!?? I wish I knew. Everything is fine until I chill the dough and then attempt to roll it out, the dough starts to crack like the San Andres fault.

I plan on doing some research with Mr. Bittman, Mrs. Child and the internet to get it right (DAMN IT). It will be my new obsession (that and the list of 60 berry desserts that Martha has on her site)

(ok, the time on this post is after midnight, but I started it around 11pm so I say it counts =P )

Olive oil gelato @ Otto

leslieanne — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:20:07 +0000