September 29, 2011
C&Z Turns Eight! + A Paris Get-Together
Today marks the eighth* anniversary of Chocolate & Zucchini. And just like last year and every year before it, I am divided between two feelings: on the one hand, I can't really remember what it felt like to experience life without a blog. On the other hand, I consider the years, months, and days, and I think, wow, it certainly is a long time to be keeping an online cooking journal. This year is an especially meaningful milestone, as it appears...
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September 20, 2011
Chestnut and Herb Canistrelli
Cooking inspiration is not the least of the pleasures I draw from a vacation, especially when I'm able to bring back a few local ingredients. It's not always a sensible maneuver, though: I'm sure we all have old packages of dusty exotic spices we haven't once cooked with, but can't quite bring ourselves to toss.
I've done this often enough over the years that I am now a lot more prudent about my vacation ingredient purchases. My strategy is tw...
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September 13, 2011
Homemade Celery Salt
When I read Heidi's July post about her homemade celery salt, I bookmarked it immediately, murmuring to myself how simple and beautiful and clever the idea was.
While I am an enthusiastic consumer of celery root, I don't cook with celery stalks much, and only ever buy it in small quantities to flavor stock. Still, in those cases, I am faced with a fair amount of celery leaves that come with the stalks. I usually just add those to the stockpot ...
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September 7, 2011
Corsica Highlights
As those of you who subscribe to the free C&Z newsletter already know, Maxence and I have just come back from Corsica -- the French island that's floating in the Mediterranean between France and Italy, just above Sardinia -- where we spent an altogether enthralling vacation with my sister and brother-in-law.
It was our first time there after years and years of thinking we absolutely must go, and although our expectations were as lofty as the a...
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September 2, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Sarah McColl
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Sarah McColl is a senior editor at Yahoo! Shine and the very lovable writer behind Pink of Perfection, a lifestyle blog on which the Dallasite-turned-Brooklynite discusses everything a girl needs to feast, delight and flourish. She does so with a gracious and insightful touch that makes readers feel she and they could be th...
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September 1, 2011
September 2011 Desktop Calendar
At the beginning of every month, I am offering C&Z readers a new wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month.
Our calendar for September is a picture of the fresh fig and rose smoothie I contributed to a book of smoothie recipes -- you'll find all the details here. Have you been making smoothies this summer? Any new favorites you want to share?
Instructions to get your ca...
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