The Wednesday Chef

Month: January 2015

  • Things That Made Me Happy This Week

    Sometimes blogs are accused of peddling an unrealistic, gauzy version of life that makes readers feel inadequate over time. I'd hate to think of that happening here, not when I indulge in culinary confections such as this – cold, day-old rice dug out of the rice cooker and topped with a squirt of Heinz ketchup…

  • How to Make Ciambellone

    Listen to this: My editor at Bazaar took me out to lunch before the holidays and congratulated me for eating the bread out of the bread basket that was placed on the table while we waited for our meal. (The chewy, delicious bread, I might add, though I would have eaten it even if it…

  • Ashley Rodriguez’s Bittersweet Brownies with Salted Peanut Butter Frosting

    According to the internet, the East Coast of the US is about to be swathed in an apocalyptic amount of snow. Meanwhile, over here, it's just miserably gray, as it always always always is this time of year. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun. Hugo, who is really into SAAHN! and…

  • Getting Back in the Saddle

    Dear Readers, I have fallen and I can't get up. I took a little break over the holidays, just a little one, I thought, and now I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get back in the blogging saddle. I keep sidling up to it, but I can't even get a…