Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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Earlier this week I sent off two chapter drafts, and since then I’ve been taking a little elusive ‘me-time.’ Actually, I was supposed to get back to work this morning, but I’ve been feeling an itch lately to blog. I don’t know why. Is it an itch to remember how to write something that is [...]
I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook. When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me [...]
Tapioca grosses a lot of people out. There are many who’ve never even tried it. Yes, it’s the same shape as that fish-bait-smelling fish roe that you get at sushi restaurants sometimes if you’re not careful. But it’s pretty benign, just round and chewy. Suspended in a creamy, delicately vanilla-flavored pudding base, I like it [...]
I know five people who live in a house in West Philadelphia. One of them, I’ve known for a really long time. He told me, on behalf of all the people, that I could come down and stay in their spare room for a few days and check Philadelphia out. The house looks out over [...]
How I’m getting through what’s left of winter: Weeknight Coq Au Vin (There’s a chicken thigh hiding in there) six pieces of chicken (I used legs and thighs), bones in and skin on one-third bottle red wine one package of mushrooms, cremini or white one medium to large onion third to half a (small) can [...]
Cabbage With Apples ~adapted from How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman 2 tablespoons butter one small/medium green cabbage two apples dash of cloves half a cup of stock or white wine a teaspoon of cherry jam s & p fresh lemon juice Chop the cabbage and the apples into pieces that you like. Melt [...]
Weeknight dessert fantasia. Plum Crumble 1.25 cups rolled oats .75 cups brown sugar (packed) .5 cups all purpose flour 1 stick o’ butter 2 lbs. plums scant 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1. Mix the flour and oats in a bowl with half of the brown sugar. Add the butter, and rub [...]
Tonight, we’re making a bean soup, minestrone-style. (Actually, a couple of weeks ago, we’re making a bean soup. This budget recipe series got away from me. Just pretend.) First, we get out the ingredients and admire them. We have some cheese and crackers to snack on, on the left. Then we get serious like this: [...]
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