(Note: this is not sponsored–I’m just utterly charmed by this product!) Between the end of summer and Amazon Photo sending me memories from our trips to Barcelona and San Sebastian on a regular basis last week, this is always a bit of a melancholy time of year for me. Given the last six months of…
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A lamb-y take on Bon Appetit’s crispy sheet-pan meatballs with salsa verde.
With my goal of cooking out of 138 cookbooks this year, I’m generally not relying on internet recipes all that much, with a few exceptions. This is one of them–we had these meatballs for the first time back in early February when my in-laws all convened in Philadelphia to celebrate winter birthdays. My brother-in-law made…
Lavender-lemon chicken wings, inspired by Rachel Khoo.
When we lived in New Haven, we lived around the corner from the local culinary institution known as Archie Moore’s. We’d go there all the time to have some beer, eat some burgers, and shoot the shit with the bartenders. (Our US congressional representative would hold informal constituent meetings there!) They have a few other…
Tomato tartare, Albert Adrià-style, to celebrate tomato season and stave off Fall Creep.
“Tomatoes—wholesome, unextravagant, and endlessly photogenic—exist somewhere in the comforting middle, a mundane joy in an absurd world.” – Amanda Mull Fall Creep is real, and I’m seeing it this year on all fronts, from the pumpkin-spice tea display that’s been at my Harris Teeter since the end of July, to the people on my Facebook…
Chicken wings with garlic and sherry, Spanish-style.
A very silly problem in the life of a food blogger is that in your quest to try lots of food, you end up neglecting favorite recipes until you make them randomly and then berate yourself for not making them sooner. Having arrived home after a little jaunt a few weeks ago, I was on…
La cuina de Catalunya: La Alcoba Azul and their pa amb allioli.
For all of the planning that I did for our trip via my various maps of fun, I didn’t try to limit myself to only the places that were on the list. And I’m glad I didn’t, because otherwise I would have missed out on a really great find that was so good, we ended…
La cuina de Catalunya: fried squid inspired by Bar Celta Pulperia and shopping for tile at Pinar Miró.
Initially, when I was deep into the planning stage for our trip to Spain I really, really wanted to find some tile shops to find some cool, ideally hand-painted tiles I could carefully bring back to the States, but in reality, the list I came up with comprised of shops that mainly sold the more…
A txiquiteo in San Sebastian: montadito of chorizo and quail egg from The Basque Book.
[Ed. – To my friends in the US, please vote today if you haven’t already.] The sheer number of Spanish and Catalan cookbooks in my collection is proof enough that one of the things I love to do most after visiting a place I love is to try to recreate as many of the dishes that…
And now: a note on Anthony Bourdain.
Llueve en el canal La corriente enseña el camino Hacia el mar Todos duermen ya Dejarse llevar suena demasiado bien Jugar al azar Nunca saber dónde puedes terminar O empazar –Vetusta Morla, “Copenhague” The Sunday morning we were in San Sebastian dawned grey and cloudy, but not rainy, and while I missed the brilliant…
Imatges/ Irudiak de Espanya/ Espainiako, a beginning of sorts.
Prior to last week, it had been four years since I’ve been in Spain, or really traveled abroad anywhere; I’m not sure what happened, except that in 2016 we just never got around to putting something together and life simply got int the way the other times. Since this October marks our tenth anniversary, we…
The Manhattan [food] Project 