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Keep the background – change the foreground

Keep the background – change the foreground

Much of the time I spend in the kitchen is devoted to taking a main course or a vegetable and trying to prepare it in new an innovative ways using different flavorings or backgrounds. Lately, though, I’ve found that I’m often thinking in the other 

Tales from the pantry

Tales from the pantry

I had a revelation recently. The night before, I served asparagus for dinner, steaming the whole bunch (which was a pretty good size bunch) and then topping with a chimichurri sauce I made a week ago. As I was cleaning up, we had about half 

The kitchen in a time of COVID-19 coronavirus

The kitchen in a time of COVID-19 coronavirus

First off, I hope everybody is safe. These are strange, scary times, upsetting all of our routines and challenging everything we take for granted. Among other things, it is refocusing the way we think about food. Sure, we think about ventilators and reproduction rates and 

Kilt in the Kitchen & COVID-19 coronavirus Part II

Kilt in the Kitchen & COVID-19 coronavirus Part II

I feel a little embarrassed about this post. I promised yesterday another post inspired, if that’s the right word, but the COVID-19 situation. As I intended I make a couple of delicious hearty soups that I portioned and put in the freezer but I also 

Kilt in the Kitchen & COVID-19 Coronavirus Part I

Kilt in the Kitchen & COVID-19 Coronavirus Part I

OK. I get it that the coronavirus presents a threat the likes of which we’ve never seen before and people need to prepare for it. I understand that. In my professional job, I’ve spent the last four days doing nothing by coronavirus planning and when 

Additions to the Bookshelf

Additions to the Bookshelf

There are a few cookbooks I’ve introduced into regular circulation in the kitchen over the past year or so. They are all listed in The Bookshelf, but I like them so much I wanted to go a little deeper in depth. My first favorite is 

Catching up on recipes

Catching up on recipes

I noticed that in my last couple of posts I neglected to include the recipes I was talking about. Let me take care of that now.   From Dinner Construction   Sautéed cabbage   Note: I have three variations of this. In the post, I 

Ways to mash things together

Ways to mash things together

On Sunday I made my first homemade chili sauce. Chili is one of those things where it’s possible to find perfectly lovely versions in jars off the shelf, but sometimes I just want to do it myself. On the written page, it isn’t all that 

Dinner construction

Dinner construction

Today’s post is going to be a little light on graphics. The idea for it didn’t come to me until I had everything on the stovetop or under the broiler, but I guess we can just muddle through. It’s Friday evening, I’m by myself, and 

Copying a restaurant’s dish

Copying a restaurant’s dish

A couple of days before Christmas, my true love and I decided to take a daytrip to Manhattan to see the store windows, Rockefeller Center, and what New York had to offer for the holidays. We mostly had a great time, including an absolutely delicious