Tamara Landre: Before and After

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Before and After

Posted by Tamara Landre at 9:56 AM

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emily said...: oh, how cute... do you know what kind they are?; May 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM

Recipe Archive (Unless noted otherwise, I made these up myself)

Antipasto
Apple, Sausage and Herb Bread Stuffing
Baked Eggs
Basic Gazpacho
Black Bean Green Beans
Cauliflower and Parsnip Soup (link)
Cheap, Simple Chili
Classic Pie Crust
Coconut Cake
Cookies, Part 2
Corn Pancakes
Corn, Tomato and White Bean Salad
Cranberry Sauce
Creamed Onions
Delicata Squash
Dinner Rolls
Easy, Wholesome Falafel
Eggplant Parmesan
Excellent Scones
Fall Vegetable Soup
Faux Fast Food Burger
Faux Pho
Fifteen-Minute Chicken Soup
Frozen Nectarine Margaritas
Good, Fast, Cheap: Hummus
Good, Fast, Cheap: Return of the Hummus
Happy Birthday Gold Medal Fudge Cake
Homemade Creme Fraiche
Homemade Granola I
Individual Creamy Lemon Cheesecakes
Just the Right Size Batch of Oatmeal Cookies
Lemon Shortbread Hearts with Raspberry Preserves
Lou "Butch" Lane's Cobbler Dough
Lucille Williams' Never Fail Chocolate Cake
Mama's Little Baby Loves Shortnin' Bread
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Melon Granita
Mom's Secret Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Momtoellis Cuban Black Beans (link)
More Zucchini Ideas
Oatmeal Bread
Oatmeal Cookies
Parsnip and Cauliflower Soup
Peach Pie
Peachy Decaf Iced Tea
Peanut Butter Cookies Dammit
Peperonata
Perfect Breakfast Smoothie
Plum Upside-Down Cake
Popovers
Pumpkin Soup
Quick White Bean and Tomato Soup with Chard
Risotto-Basic Recipe
Simple Chocolate Icing
Simple Delicious Turnips
Simple Wheat Bread
Spaghetti with Acorn Squash, Ham and Bok Choy
Speedy Leek and Potato Soup
Spicy Gingerbread Thins
Star of the Barbecue Broccoli Salad
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Summer Corn and Tomato Salad
Summer Ratatouille
Sunday Morning Biscuits
Susan Ridley's Crab Cakes
Thanksgiving Recipes
That's Aubergine to You, Mate
The Famous Dutch Baby
The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Angel Food Cake
The Very Best Caesar Salad Dressing
The Very Best Pie Crust
Three More Summer Salads
Turkish White Bean Dip
Two Bean or Not Two Bean Salad
Two More Pie Crust Recipes (at bottom)
Velvet Chocolate Cake (at the bottom)
Warm Potato Salad
Yet Another Flourless Chocolate Cake (2 recipes)
Zapple Recipes from Andrea Chesman
Zucchini Ideas
Zucchini Pancakes
Zucchini-Cheddar Breakfast Biscuits

So Yeah, I Read a lot...more recent reads

More Books I've Read, with links to more info about them

A Homemade Life
A Little History of the World
A Sense of the World
A Spot of Bother
Absurdistan
All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
Back When We Were Grownups
Bird by Bird
Biting the Wax Tadpole
Bobbi Brown's Living Beauty
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Born Standing Up
Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
Conquering Diabetes
Divisadero
Dreams from My Father
Dry: A Memoir
Evidence of Things Unseen
Feeding the Kids, The Flexible, No Battles, Healthy Eating System
Fierce Heart
Floor Sample
Heat
I Like You
In the Merde for Love
LEAP: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i
Look Me in the Eye
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
My Stroke of Insight
Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad about My Neck
Pedaling to Hawaii
Robinson Crusoe
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Stern Men
Stumbling on Happiness
Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
The Discomfort Zone
The Fragile Edge
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Invention of Everything Else
The Zookeeper's Wife
Then We Came to the End
Things I Learned About My Dad (In Therapy)
Triggering Town
What to Eat, by Marion Nestle
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Wishful Drinking

Other Books I've Read

A Box of Matches
A Million Little Pieces
A Soldier of the Great War
A Winter's Tale
Absurdistan
Blue Shoe
Drinking: A Love Story
Eat, Pray, Love
Eloise
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Fat Girl
Fierce People
Freakanomics
Freddy and Fredericka
Housekeeping
I Don't Know How She Does It
La Bonne Table
Memoir from Antproof Case
Naked
Perfume
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Refiner's Fire
Remainder
Running With Scissors
Special Projects in Calamity Physics
Stiff
Stumbling on Happiness
Suzuki Beane
Tender Is the Night
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
The Fermata
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
The Giant's House
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Last American Man
The Little Prince
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Rice Room
Timbuktu
Under the Tuscan Sun
Until I Find You
We Are All the Same
While I Was Gone
Why Girls are Weird
Why We Buy
With Bold Knife and Fork

Fanae Aaron Ellsworth: What Chefs Feed Their Kids
dreamkus- the haikus of your dreams
ali benjamin
orangette
essential sf eats by jordan ferney
muse seattle
lucy+ellen
where women create
puget soundbites
dj kelly poptart
hooping.org
dooce
etsy
sfgirlbybay

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Tamara Landre
Napa Valley, California

I'm originally from Modesto, CA, which is in the middle of the Great Central Valley. It was a nice, normal place to grow up back in the 70s and 80s. Growing up, I thought there were only two seasons: Hot and Fog. I now live in a smaller, prettier California valley, on a beautiful winery estate.

I believe that real food, prepared with love and shared, has the power to make life better.

Welcome to my blog. Make yourself at home.

About the blog

Each and every thing on this blog is copyright 2006-2012 (and infinity) by Tamara Landre, all rights reserved. I take all of the pictures myself, unless otherwise credited, and for better or worse, I write everything, too. I apologize in advance for using my iPhone instead of my good camera to take some of the pictures. Really, though, if you'd like to use something on your own blog, just let me know in a comment or email. Thanks!

(In case you're wondering how it's pronounced: Tamara rhymes with camera, and Landre is just like Landry, more like pantry than laundry or laundray. All very Americanized, and not like the Hebrew, Russian and French from whence they came.)

If there is anyone out there who found me because they were searching for Tamara Landry, with a y, please move on, these are not the droids you are looking for. Tamara Landr y is/was a porn star of dubious achievements. I am an entirely different Tamara Landre, with an e. I am also not Tamara Nadin-Landré, the Scandinavian martial-artist. Nor am I the Tamara Landry who was missing during hurricane Katrina. I do hope she turned up.