We had a pretty whirlwind little trip to New York in early April, and M mentioned he was open to getting dinner one of our two nights at Mercado Little Spain. Usually how we do it now is that we’ll walk over to Grand Central Terminal to have some oysters at the GC Oyster Bar,…
#Rampfest2023: salmon tartare with ramp salsa and avocado-lime purée.
I didn’t know if I’d be able to get my hands on some ramps this year, but a few weeks ago Michael told me he had a meeting in New York and we could spend a couple of days before coming home again. We’d go up on a Sunday and spend the day together, and…
Images (not) from New York, another night in downtown LA edition.
Last year, over the Super Bowl weekend, we went to Hollywood, FL for one of Michael’s work conferences and had a pretty great time. This same show apparently likes to alternate between the East Coast and West Coast, so this time they held the show in Hollywood, CA. Since that is a considerably longer flight,…
Chicken thighs in charred chile and tomatillo salsa, inspired by Mexico: The Cookbook.
As much as I like cooking, I have to admit that especially on weekdays, I can be a creature of habit. Mondays we typically do tacos, Tuesdays are for chicken thighs that will turn into leftovers for the week, and Wednesdays I’ll make some sort of raw fish dish. Often with my Tuesday chicken thighs…
Tomato-flavored lasagnette all’amatriciana.
April was kind of a strange month. It started out great–we were finishing up our week in Mexico City–and a week later we were getting ready for the Easter holiday weekend that we’d be spending in PA. I was a bit jet-lagged because I didn’t sleep great during our trip, and I blame that on…
Spicy salmon tiradito as inspired by Lorraine Pascale.
With spring now officially here, I can now think about my weekly raw/pickled/cured fish dishes less as pretending to be somewhere warmer for dinner and instead be an actually refreshing dish on a hot day. It’s still pretty chilly here in Baltimore–March has really leaned into the whole “lion” side of the old weather adage–but…
Images (not) from New York, return to Daytona Beach edition.
There was a time when I thought I wouldn’t be making the return back to Daytona Beach this year, mainly because we thought we were going somewhere else at that time. That trip was postponed for about six weeks, so back to Daytona we went. Though Daytona didn’t leave the best first impression on me,…
On one of the origin stories of the Margarita and Alton Brown’s Margarita 2.0.
When walking along the Seawall in Galveston, close to 21st Street near the historic Hotel Galvez, you’ll see a four-post structure with a burlap roof that is often billowing in the Gulf breeze. Once you get closer, yellow signs will tell you that it’s the historic Balinese Room Pier, or rather, what little that is …
Tuscan-style white bean and garlic soup with sage, rosemary, and mascarpone.
As I’m writing this, the temperature is in the high 30s when two days ago the high temperature was at 80 degrees. It’s been a wild winter despite the lack of snow, between the extreme lows around the holidays to again, freakishly warm days, but that’s what climate change does to our weather. It’s been…
Making Sweet Liberty Drinks & Supply’s Caviar Dip at home with crème fraîche, caramelized onions, charred scallions, and salmon roe.
Sweet Liberty Drinks & Supply might be best known for its inventive and perfectly-made cocktails, but their food menu is nothing to sleep on either. During happy hour you can get dollar oysters which is something we always love to do, but we will also get a more substantial snack to tide us over while…
The Manhattan [food] Project 