Thanks to everyone who came out for my first-ever everything (reading, signing, cooking demonstration and book sale) at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday. Considering I sold about 20 books and didn’t lose a knuckle while chopping onions in front of 100 people, it was a huge success in my book.
Perhaps more exciting, however, were the two Crabby Mary’s I had on Saturday night at Olbricky’s Crab House.
I’ll be at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. Come find me at the Food for Thought tent Sunday at 4:30. I’ll be cooking, sampling recipes and selling advance copies of my upcoming cookbook, “Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven.” Oh, I’ll apparently also be talking for an hour and a half. Come ask me questions!
My book, my book!
In case you don’t live in Baltimore or aren’t actively stalking me and didn’t listen to my first ever (book-related) radio interview online this morning, you can hear me on Baltimore’s 93.1 WPOC.
Over at Laurie DeYoung’s show, they’ve even set up a friendly little casserole competition.
While this was the first radio interview I’ve done for the book, I’ve gotten lots of great press so far, which can all be found on the press page of this here website.
Hopefully there’s more to come. Because I’m going to cry like a baby when I get my first bad review.
Saturday, my friend Lacey and I entered The Brooklyn Kitchen‘s Anything But Apple Pie cooking competition, the goal being to cook with apples, making anything but apple pie, natch. The event, which was a great way to ring in the fall, was a benefit for the Greenpoint Dutch Reform Church’s Wednesday Soup kitchen (which I’ve cooked for in the past).
At first, we had the idea to deep fry apple slices and bake them with fontina and gruyere, making an apple parm kind-of dish, but considering neither of us has extra money to toss around, we opted instead to use what I already had on hand which happened to be egg noodles, shallots from the green market and about five ounces of goat cheese. I also had eggs and five medium green apples, making a noodle kugel the obvious choice. Other than picking up some extra goat cheese (more on that later) and Lacey having to run out at the last minute to get vegetable broth—she’s a vegetarian and all I had was chicken broth—we used only ingredients that were already in my kitchen.
The dish was wonderful; we couldn’t help picking at it before we left the house. I even garnished it with some green apple skin. I was sure we’d win. But when we got there, we quickly realized the competition—even though we only had three competitors—was fierce. One entrant had made apple turnovers (close to a pie, yes, but absolutely delicious) one had made a turkey meatball and apple soup and another made pulled pork, Memphis style (with slaw on top) with apple slaw. Anyone who knows me outside of this blog knows that pulled pork, Memphis style, on a sesame bun is my favorite thing in the entire world to eat. You also know that I believe the apple is the most perfect fruit in the world.
Well, the judges didn’t agree with me, on either count. Their top two favorites were the turnovers and the soup—both wonderful, I’ll admit. They loved our kugel, and said it was everything a kugel should be, but that the goat cheese overpowered the apple. But hell, we’d gone out to get more goat cheese, because as far as Lacey and I are concerned, there’s no such thing as too much cheese—especially goat cheese.
If you agree, try our Apple and Goat Cheese Kugel, after the jump.
emily farris does tv dinner better
For those of you who live in New York, I’ll be on Fox5′s “Good Day New York” at 8:39 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10 (yes, that’s this coming Wednesday), to show the world how to fix up a microwavable TV dinner. Catch me if you can at 8:39 a.m.
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