I thought maybe Brooklyn wasn’t going to get a real summer this year. It’s been cool and rainy around these parts for months. (Which is part of why the Northeast is likely going to have a sad tomato crop.) Then, last weekend, August descended upon us with a vengeance, and a week early to boot. [...]
This isn’t so much a recipe as a very easy technique. The first time I had peppers blistered like this was in Spain, and they were a revelation. They were pimientos de Guernica, mild but flavorful little peppers, fried in olive oil until blistered, then tossed with coarse sea salt. The sweetness of the pepper, [...]
It’s all strawberries, all the time, around here, I know. I’ll vary it up a little soon, but there are few things I hate more than to see good food go to waste, so when the last of the CSA berry bounty was still sitting on my counter on Sunday night, and I’d used up [...]
Today the temperature rose to 50 degrees and the sun finally showed itself. I was able to wear a jacket that was not of the head-to-toe, sleeping-bag variety! I didn’t wear a hat! I definitely needed a day like this. Stepping outside was like coming up for air.
By happy coincidence, we had planned an afternoon [...]
Today marks six years with my favorite food-taster, dishwasher, and dinner companion. We’re headed out to a neighborhood favorite this evening to celebrate, so there will be no cooking tonight. Instead, I thought I’d post a recipe Jeff made for me when we were first dating, and which has become one of my favorite winter [...]
I brought the camera to the office today and accidentally left it there, so there is no mouth-watering photo to convince you to try this recipe, but please, if you like lamb at all, just trust me on this one. It’s delicious!
During the summer and fall, I participate in a great CSA program. In addition [...]
My late grandmother believed that it was good luck to eat ham and cabbage on New Year’s Day. I was fortunate enough to have grown up in the same town as my grandmother, so every New Year’s Day my family would drive over to her house for dinner. Holiday dinners happen early in my family, [...]
