Leftovers Lunch

I told myself I was going to eat nothing but vegetables while on my “recovery vacation” these two weeks. I lied.

IPB Plans For A Long Winter

Many people scoff at my farm membership when they hear things like, “This week was awesome! We got 28 pounds of tomatoes!” Well, those people have never known the joys of homemade tomato sauce coming out of the dead-body freezer on a dark wintry day. The sauce and paste tomatoes from my [...]

Oven-Roasting On A Whim

Last night was Pookie’s late night at the library, which means I have to have dinner ready at 10:00 instead of our standard 7:00. The most difficult part of this is having the get-up-and-go, after an evening of IMing with her, to actually cook something. Normally I make things like “linguini fini tossed [...]

Leftovers!

So what’s a girl to do with three-day-old challah?

IPB Goes All Chicago-Style

Pookie suggested as we browsed Baker’s Catalogue in anticipation of the kitchen’s completion that I impulse-buy the deep-dish pizza pan they had on sale. She said all kinds of things about how much she wanted to try making pizza and how she thought it would be so fun, and I agreed. I don’t [...]

A Not-Quite-Daily Loaf With IPB

My primary love as a baker is bread. For many years I thought myself a highly competent home bread-baker, and when I grew frustrated with hitting what I thought was my ceiling as a self-taught baker, I enrolled in a week-long course at the Culinary Institute of America with the hopes of making myself [...]

Blue Enigma

Between IPB Eats and IPB proper, it’s well established that we’re into cooking, eating and watching hockey. There is, however, one more hobby that consumes a lot of our time and energy: needlework. This is the first in what will be a very sporadic series of posts dedicated to my finished projects (it’s [...]

PorkFest ‘07!

The cooking highlight of the year at stately IPB Manor is PorkFest, our annual celebration of all things pork. This tradition started three years ago when I made pulled pork (smoked in my regular old Weber grill, mind you) and mentioned it to Carrie (Official Real-Life Friend of IPB [TM]), who was aghast that [...]