Congee, you know what I mean? Except not. First, I’ll admit that this was not the most convenient meal to make on a weeknight–but it can be done. Just remember to pop the squash in the oven as soon as possible, then begin the rest of your preparation and cooking. That way it should be [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto with Wilted Spinach, Leeks and Chinese Sausage
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Five Things You Didn’t (Want to) Know About Me
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Vanessa, keeper of the wonderfully inventive veggie recipe vault Vanesscipes, gamely tagged me in blog tag: the Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me series. As if I didn’t already share too many stupid facts about myself on this site, allow me to dispel a number of things that you may or may not [...]
Serious Eats gets in a Pickle
Monday, February 26th, 2007Just a friendly tip for all those who are dying to learn more about pickling from three of the best people around: check out Serious Eats this week (the most fun, informative and friendly site for those serious about noshing) for my story and you’ll see what this concoction is all about.
And have a great [...]
Beef Shanks Braised with Fennel and Mushrooms
Monday, February 26th, 2007Winter was a good time for oxtails when I was growing up. My dad was fond of the Basque oxtail recipe in Jeff Smith’s The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors, a really good soupy dish perfect for sopping up with warm crusty bread. There wasn’t much meat on those starburst-shaped discs of bone; it [...]
Eating in at your favorite restaurants
Friday, February 23rd, 2007My friend Sean, an avid cooker, served up one mean lamb and cranberry meat pie last weekend that he’d done a fair share of hunting for. Well, the lamb meat itself came from the Farmer’s Market in Fort Greene Park. But the hunt for the recipe was a twisted road. A few months ago he’d [...]
Molten Chocolate Business
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Warning: this post contains graphic images not suitable for children under 17
Who had time for Valentine’s Day in the middle of last week? Not I. I’m not the only person I know who’d opted to postpone Valentine’s Day to a more convenient night this year. But even though I had a long weekend, things kept [...]
Pigging Out on Chinese New Year
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007At the festivities on Mott St. on Sunday
Chickpea Leek Soup
Saturday, February 17th, 2007In celebration of “soup month” February and all the cold, soup-worthy weather we’ve been having recently, here’s my contribution to Soup’s On at A Veggie Venture.
It’s funny how much the texture of warm chickpeas can parallel that other vegetable commonly paired with leek in a soup–the potato. While leeks cook up insistently savory, the chickpea [...]
Sour Cream Banana Oatmeal Crunch Bread
Thursday, February 15th, 2007The other day my co-workers and I polished this off so quickly that I didn’t even get to snag a picture of the thing. The problem was, I didn’t think to take a picture of it; it was unexpectedly good. So good. Good good good good good. And good for you.
I had no such aspirations [...]
New Toys
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007What am I going to do with you, good-looking?
How do I treat myself? Let me count the ways. Trudging my way from the camp of the kitchen toy have nots to the enviable haves, this week I made a soaring leap with the purchase of a double-pronged sword—er, blade: this Cuisinart food processor and blender.
Pork. Chop. Noodles.
Monday, February 12th, 2007Slurrrp. I do miss a hearty bowl of pork chop soup noodles, the kind you might get for $3 at any number of noodle shops in the lower east realms of Chinatown. Most people think of soup noodles as a wintery dish, but I’ve seen them devoured by all kinds of people as a summer [...]
Better Tuna Noodle Casserole
Friday, February 9th, 2007I watched Jacques Pepin make a dish on public television that was so appealing for a cold weeknight, a casserole of pasta baked with peas, corn and diced French ham in a simple beschamel with cheese sprinkled on top. He put it in the broiler–one of the most overlooked part of your kitchen, according to [...]
Camaje Cooking Class: A Taste of Thai
Thursday, February 8th, 2007As a Christmas gift, I was given a one-night class at Camaje cooking classes. The course for the evening at the West Village French bistro that my benefactor chose to enroll me in was “A Taste of Thai.” This was the first cooking class I had taken since seventh grade home economics, and I couldn’t [...]
Not with the ‘Times’
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007“Unlike an earlier wave of food blogs focused on home cooking, recipes and basic restaurant recommendations, the new breed is gossipy and competitive; it trafficks in pointed restaurant criticism and tidbits of news — Craftsteak has installed a new stove!”
Whatever, New York Times. I’d rather be cooking at my tiny stove than trumpeting the most [...]
Sweet Potato Chips and Sour Green Dip
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007This is probably two days past the point to bother saying, but I don’t really do football. I just don’t watch it. And I don’t feel left out of an annual popular culture event by not going to a Super Bowl party, sitting on a friend’s couch and routing for a team, catching the first [...]
Red Wine Pork Stroganoff
Monday, February 5th, 2007For the coldest weekend to date this winter in New York, I had a mind for stew. With far too many types fighting for attention inside it. Beef bourguignon was foremost, then marsalas or perhaps a scallopini, then I thought of making a scallopini of pork medallions instead of veal (which I haven’t eaten in [...]









