Last night, I wanted to make a “What White People Eat” dinner: mac and cheese, greens, and a cob of corn. Unfortunately, it turned out that the almond milk I was going to use had been in the fridge too long and was getting moldy (grosssss!) and the greens I bought were actually mustard greens [...]
Spring vegetables are some things I look forward to most after winter. Even though the mild winters of California are nothing to complain about, part of me is always glad when the days start getting longer and the days warmer.
Will’s co-worker gifted us with a bunch of green garlic from his garden. What a great [...]
Can you tell that winter is coming from the dark leafy greens that are showing up in my dinners? Although now that I think of it, any season is great for dark leafy greens.
Dinner #1 was 4 vegetables, 4 ways:
Smashed fingerling potatoes which were boiled, tossed in olive oil, salt, a bit of cayenne pepper, [...]
My friend Jessica at Eat Sip Chew was one of the chefs at Canele on Tuesday during their “Friends Cook at Canele” night. It’s an event where anyone with a willingness to work in a hot, busy kitchen and the ideas for a 3-course meal can become a chef for the night.
The first course [...]
My basil plant is exploding outside thanks to the hot weather and tons of sun. I have to pinch off buds every other day to keep it from trying to have babies with itself. It was getting massively bushy, so I trimmed it back a bit to give the younger, newer leaves a chance to [...]
We’ve been watching a lot of Sopranos lately. I’ve never seen it, so it’s completely new to me. Sometimes the people are hard to understand with their heavy New Jersey accents and weird slang even though they’re speaking English. There are two things that watching the Sopranos makes me crave: whiskey and [...]
I was inspired by Mark Bittman’s Open Ravioli post a few weeks ago and today, I present to you: Deconstructed Ravioli!
Or maybe that’s just a fancy way of saying, “I don’t have an ravioli tools and I had to roll the dough out by hand, so I’m going to take some shortcuts and just make [...]
