One of my all-time favorite blogs is Eggbeater, by Shuna Fish Lydon. It's a great food blog, which would be enough, but it's also delightfully written, funny, and the pictures are fantastic too.
This week, Shuna is featured in the New York Times Magazine, in Amanda Hesser's Recipe Redux feature. I can't wait to try her recipe for Labné-and-Ricotta Cheesecakes With Rice, Nut and Raspberry Relish. The original idea was to serve the labné with a raspberry flummery, which is a fruit pudding of sorts, but Shuna followed her instincts and ended up with a relish on top instead. I am so glad, because the relish sounds amazing!
As for flummery, I am especially happy about its resurgence, because the name just couldn't be better--flummery!!--and because my family has been making a variation of it forever, calling it by the German name, "rote grütze." For the linguistically minded among you, that translates to "red grits," even though the dish has nothing to do with grits at all. I bet you could serve it over grits and it would be delicious. We usually have it with vanilla custard or whipped cream, or if we're very lucky, both.
Perhaps Alexis will tell you sometime how the beloved Neil Patrick Harris was very nearly our next-door neighbor in our Manhattan co-op!
Oh, who am I kidding? I'll tell you the story myself...
NPH was going to sublet the other apartment on our floor while performing "Assassins" at Roundabout Theater. The production, alas, was (appropriately) postponed after the 9/11 attacks. And so, our lead-pipe cinch BFF, and his doting avuncular relationship with our daughters, had to be put off until an as-yet undetermined time.
It will happen, of course -- I'm reading "The Secret" so it WILL happen -- but the details are a tantalizing mystery.
Posted by: CMR | July 22, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Seriously? Flummery? It sounds like something you attach to your hat for flourish.
Sorry I couldn't help with the book search - I can't read anything longer than a magazine article these days. If I remember correctly, the attention span returns sometime in the baby's third year.
One more thing. I l o v e love love Dr. Horrible's sing-along-blog. I love Neil Patrick Harris. I love 'How I Met Your Mother' and I think I may love you for posting that. I thought I was the only one.
Posted by: Amy | July 21, 2008 at 11:29 PM