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…
Drunken red wine cavatelli with pancetta and basil
While I really don’t have any reason to add any more pasta tools to my collection, I did add one more this past Christmas and I have to say that I really like it: my cavatelli maker. While I’m still getting the hang of it, I wanted to share one of my more successful recipes…
The Landshark Beach Chips Tortilla inspired by the Margaritaville Beach Resort.
The great thing, at least to me, about being inspired by the food you eat while traveling is that you never know what’s going to strike your fancy. Certain places might spark some more obvious dishes, like when we go to Barcelona and Saint Sebastian, but others can catch me completely off-guard, and that’s what…
Images (not from) New York, Daytona Beach edition.
“It’s like walking around a defunct amusement park, except people live there.” My friend T on Daytona Beach As someone who is neither a racing enthusiast nor in the demographic who cares about spring break, I’ll admit that Daytona Beach was never really on my bucket list of places I wanted to visit. All that…
Pork cutlets fra diavolo inspired by Michael Solomonov and Israeli Soul.
One of my go-to, “oh shit I need a protein to go with pasta” dishes that I turn to time and time again is the cutlet, either with chicken or pork. Sometimes we’ll have them as our first course because the pasta dish I’m making is more extensive, or we’ll have them standing by to…
Sheldon Simeon’s lomi salmon from Cook Real Hawai’i.
Months ago now, I had the rather brilliant idea of going on a walk over to Whole Foods on a weekly basis in order to get fresh fish and vegetables in order to make ceviche. I thought that this would be a really fun way to eat more fish and get some good walking in,…
The Manhattan [food] Project 