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Five Minute Photo Shoot: Noodle Times
Two recent noodle dishes, very dissimilar in character: First, some Sesame Noodles with Chili and Scallion. This is one of my new favorite recipes. I added peas because, hey, peas. Also appearing...
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Five Minute Photo Shoot: Arugula + Cherries, Peas + Orzo
Two recent dishes: first, a little salad of arugula, fresh cherries, and some fancy-pants blue cheese. Lots of black pepper. Looks like I served it with some soup or whatever. Such a lazy salad. I...
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Five Minute Photo Shoot: Bahn Mi
Lunch today: a bahn mi with pork and pâté, from a local place. Enjoyable, but just okay. Not the best bahn mi ever. But I don’t think there exists such a thing as a bad bahn mi. Hipster ketchup on...
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Five Minute Photo Shoot: Some Boring Salmon with Maybe the Best Carrots Ever
For dinner: coho salmon with oregano pesto breadcrumbs that aren’t browned enough. Boring. Alongside: Ottolenghi’s Spicy Carrot Salad, with couscous mixed in (regular and Israeli, because...
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Park Sammiches
It’s still Summer! I don’t know why, but this year, I’ve been expecting the balmy weather to give out aaaaaany minute now. But enough about that. I made sandwiches, designed especially for eating in...
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The Trick to Awesome Lentils; or, Two Reasons I Keep Cooked Lentils in the...
Y’all all need to start keeping cooked lentils in the fridge. Why? Two reasons: 1. Dinner 2. Fast I’m referring to firm lentils, like beluga or du Puy. Brown lentils are too mushy for this, and red...
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Chickpeas in Coconut Milk; or, Turmeric for Dummies
If there’s one food people should eat more of, it’s turmeric. It’s one of those “aw geez how can this be so good for me” kinda foods. It’s anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and there’s research going on...
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Five Minute Photo Shoot: Kale, Lentils, Hazelnuts, Manchego
I made a salad. It was kale, these cool blond lentils I saw at the store, celery, red onion, hazelnuts, a mountain of manchego, and a spicy dressing of piri piri oil + hazelnut oil + sherry vinegar.
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I Believe This Might Just Be My Masterpiece: Birthday Cake 2014
Who makes the best cakes? Momofuku Milk Bar makes the best cakes. I am not being paid or otherwise compensated to say this. It’s just the damn truth. Here’s the logic: the best food texture is,...
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Green Sauce with Arugula & Parsley
Not sure what it is, or why, but I can never seem to get enough green in my food. I go through phases with ingredients (or entire cuisines) where I can’t come out of a grocery store without a certain...
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Mayonnaise Is a Goddamn Miracle
What Is Mayonnaise? You know what mayonnaise is? Mayonnaise is a goddamn miracle. BuT i DoN’t LiKe MaYoNnAiSe Some of you don’t like mayonnaise, and that’s fine. You’re entitled to your extremely...
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