Food, cooking, and travel
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Carrots are, by far, the most popular vegetable in this household. No question. We have carrots at least twice a week, but more than that, carrots are the favorite human food of one of Alex, one of our parrots. My true love says over and …
So there’s authenticity, and then there’s having fun with ingredients. Last night, I was trying to think of how to pit together my dinner. I had some trout and top round steak, lots of different vegetables, a pile of carrots and onions, and several jars …
Monday morning I was making a wrap sandwich to have for lunch. Now you have to realize that this is about 5:45 am, because I need to get to work by 7:00 am and I have a half-hour commute, I haven’t showered yet, and I …
I tend to go through serial obsessions in the kitchen. Every once in a while I’ll stumble across a new ingredient or a new technique and then spend the next several weeks exploring it. This past spring and summer I was in a Middle Eastern …
Last night was one of those nights where I started off without having any idea whatsoever about what I wanted to make for dinner. All day long at work I was trying to come up with something I wanted to do for dinner and essentially …