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Fettuccine with sun-dried tomato and miso pesto.
As much as I love a nice, herby pesto, sometimes I’m craving something a little bit different, and this umami-laden, no-cook sauce fits the bill perfectly. I’ve been on a bit of a kick recently where I combine tomatoes and white miso into various pasta sauces, but this one might be my favorite to-date. For…
Images (not) from New York, one day in San Francisco edition.
Following our brief detour to Seattle, we flew back to Oakland to spend a few days in the Bay Area. Originally we had hoped that we could stay for a few extra days to see our friends who live out there, but other engagements coming up in the following week would only give us one…
Hugh Acheson’s sous vide cheeseburger from Sous Vide.
Nearly a year after we moved to Baltimore, a new restaurant opened up on Cross Street: Bookmakers Cocktail Club. On a street littered with variations on the traditional pub and/or biergarten, Bookmakers was decidedly different: a quasi-speakeasy with gothic decor, an extensive cocktail list, and upscale takes on Southern fare. It was one of the…
Citrus-cured salmon with latkes, Meyer lemon-fennel cream cheese, sumac-pickled onions, and capers.
After my near-religious experience with the house-cured king salmon at Lowell’s Seafood in Pike Place Market, it was only a matter of when, not if, I would be curing some salmon for brunch when we came home. If you look up “cured salmon” or “gravlax” on this blog, you’re going to find all of the…
Tagliolini with Meyer lemon, basil, pistachios, and Pecorino Romano.
After not making fresh pasta for a month because we were traveling, to say I was eager to get back at it is an understatement. Whether we were actually out of town on a Sunday or we were about to hit the road on a Monday morning, it seemed silly to make a full batch…
Images (not) from New York, just over 12 hours in Seattle edition.
While we were in Hollywood, Michael found out that he had to also add Seattle to our upcoming trip to the West Coast, and he was able to rearrange our flights so I could still go along with him. That last trip in February started out with a quasi-bang: the night before we left, our…
Air fryer asparagus with miso butter and a slow-poached egg, as inspired by Momofuku.
There’s something deeply satisfying about learning to love a new food, like you’ve leveled up in a game and you’ve opened a whole new world of games to play. For years I’ve tried to like asparagus, but I never could figure out a way that I could find it palatable–roasting the asparagus didn’t seem to…
Images (not) from New York, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood edition.
Back in 2019, flying to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport in South Florida was an intermediate stop en route to our actual destination of Miami. Since Southwest didn’t fly directly to MIA at the time, we’d fly to FLL, either rent a car or get a rideshare, and drive the 40-ish minutes to the Magic City….
Gail Simmons’s jerk shrimp from Bringing it Home, but make it lettuce cups.
The mark of a good cookbook to me is how much I use it, and I use Gail’s Bringing it Home a lot. I love how much it covers, from breakfast and brunch to fun party snacks and noodle dishes, and I also love how conversational the headnotes that precede each recipe. It’s easy to…
The Manhattan [food] Project 