When we were in Miami a few weeks ago, we started our trip in the Brickell neighborhood because there’s a Hampton Inn there that’s both reasonable and very nice, and it also happens to be a few blocks away from a great little Neapolitan-style pizza place called Stanzione 87. I first tried them back in…
Tomato tartare with chili mayo revisited via José Andrés’s Vegetables Unleashed, sort of.
As someone who enjoys diving into a nice tartare at a restaurant (as well as making them at home), I’ll basically try anything once, including tomato tartare. This version was from a recipe I came across online, and while it was nice, I have to be honest and admit that I really haven’t made it…
On revisiting and revising my main fresh pasta dough recipe.
Ever since I acquired Marc Vetri’s Mastering Pasta, I’ve largely relied on his basic nine-yolk dough recipe for my weekly pasta exploits. For a while I could get a dough that would yield to 454 grams (or a pound), but I started noticing about a year or so ago that I wasn’t getting that consistency…
The Rite of Spring, a tequila-rhubarb cocktail.
My original intention was to publish this last week, but then I woke up last Tuesday to the news that the Key Bridge here in Baltimore was destroyed due to a collision with a cargo ship, and it was all just so surreal and terrible that it felt really wrong to babble on about a…
Turmeric-cumin cauliflower soup that’s perfect whether chilled or hot.
Last September, I waxed poetic about this chilled cauliflower soup recipe from Giada De Laurentiis, and I declared that I would be making it frequently over the colder months as a way to enjoy cauliflower more frequently, with sometimes swapping out this beet gazpacho I first enjoyed at Jaleo in December. I’m pleased to say…
Blood orange, pistachio, and spring mix salad with citrus and roasted garlic dressing.
Is it just me, or has this been a particularly good winter for citrus? In late December/early January, I noticed that my Harris Teeter had a pretty nice Sunkist display featuring a nice variety of interesting citrus, including blood oranges, Meyer lemons, Cara Cara oranges, and pomelos. Something I learned over a decade ago at…
Roasted onion and cheddar frittata with roasted tomatoes, inspired by Tom Colicchio’s ‘wichcraft.
One of the sleeper MVPs in my cookbook collection is Tom Colicchio’s cookbook for ‘wichcraft, his sandwich shop he launched way back in 2003. It grew as a small chain, but now only one location remains in the Garment District in New York. To be honest, even if it had gone defunct, I’d hang onto…
Melissa Clark’s smoky lentils and sausages from Dinner in an Instant.
Remember when Instant Pot, and subsequently Instant Pot recipes were absolutely everywhere? We received a digital pressure cooker about a year prior to when they got big as a gift from a friend, and at the time we were only using the recipes that came with it, which were fine…but not revelatory. Then Instant Pot…
Cannellini bean and tomato soup, inspired by the late Franny’s in Brooklyn.
I’ve been in a soup mood for the past couple of months, and I’ve been making batches of cauliflower soup (which is great hot or chilled) and beet-tomato gazpacho to enjoy as a light snack during the week when I’m at home. It’s prompted me to revisit some soup sections of my favorite cookbooks, and…
El Orfeón: a mezcal-based Last Word cocktail variation with homemade violet cordial.
This cocktail was inspired by two of our 2023 trips: a short October trip to Austin and our week in Mexico City. On our first evening in downtown Austin we went to Punch Bowl Social for a group dinner, and my personal favorite of the many good cocktails on the menu was the Desert Bloom…
The Manhattan [food] Project 