Food, cooking, and travel
Yesterday I was waiting for a service person from the cable company to arrive and update my box (whatever that may mean) and couldn’t leave the house. When it became time for lunch, I didn’t have a lot of options. The chicken tagine I’d been …
I eat a lot of fish. Most of the time we have fish at least four nights a week and when my true love is traveling, that will increase to five or six. One of the problems with cooking fish is that the line between …
A couple of weeks ago I bought a couple of sweet potatoes for a carrot and sweet potato soup (the recipe is the same as for the cauliflower chestnut soup I discussed here, except replace the chestnuts and cauliflower with carrots and sweet potatoes). The …
I recently finished Sarah Lohman’s Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. It’s not a cookbook, although it does have recipes in it. It is a trip through 250 years of American cookbooks and menus to tell a rich story of something called “American” cuisine …
In my last post, I mentioned how hard it is to keep foods like cauliflower interesting. It’s cauliflower (and broccoli, and asparagus, etc.). They’re healthy, and they’re good, but if you’re cooking for one or two, a head of cauliflower is going to get real …
Right now, my true love is living in the UK for a few weeks. We’re a dual-profession household and that means that I’m holding down a more or less empty fort for some of the year. This means that I get a chance to do …