A break-bumper, or commercial bumper, or ident-bumper, is a bit that serves as a short transition between a show and the commercials. They haven’t been used as much anymore, but if you grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons when that was a thing, you’ve probably seen these while watching Muppet Babies and the like on…
On eating more vegetables with José Andrés’s Vegetables Unleashed.
As I’ve gotten older, I’d like to say that I’ve become much better about eating a wider variety of vegetables but I know I can always do better. A recent trend that has helped that has been the rise of vegetable-driven cookbooks by various celebrity chefs ranging from April Bloomfield to Hugh Acheson. Earlier this…
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…
Baharat-spiced ground lamb with grape-pistachio salad and Zahav hummus tehina.
I know I’ve been writing a lot about Michael Solomonov and Zahav and Israeli Soul recently, but I can’t help myself because the restaurant and both cookbooks are really that good. A few weeks ago, Helen Rosner published a list of what she feels are the best cookbooks of the new century up until this…
An Aperol Spritz inspired by The Sandbox at 1 Hotel in Miami Beach.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was never expecting to fall in love with Miami during our travels there this past spring, but fall in love with it I did. The moment that kicked my excitement into high gear can be pinpointed back to when we made it onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway,…
Tagliolini with burst cherry tomatoes, rosemary, and ricotta as inspired by Gail Simmons and Bringing It Home.
I have a few pots of rosemary in my windowsill herb garden, in part because my first pot of rosemary seemingly took forever to grow. (Granted, I didn’t help this by putting the pot in partial shade initially and so I had to replace some of the original rosemary with newer plants.) All of my…
Boqueria’s sangría de vino rosado, or: what I did with my summer produce, drinks edition.
Not long after we moved to Stamford from New York, I planned to do this whole tapas crawl around Manhattan, and as I’ve implied in this post over at Maps of Fun, it was kind of a disaster because, like, half of the places we went to either were not open until later in the…
Images (not from) New York, Chicago in July edition.
On a last-minute impulse not long before the Fourth of July, Michael turned to me one night and told me he had an itch to go somewhere for the long weekend. His first instinct was New Orleans (because neither of us can stop talking about how much we want to go back there), but all…
A tale of two scallop dishes: scallop carpaccio with radishes and seared scallops, both with ginger-chive pesto.
Before we begin, I have to pay tribute to one of the best talking-head interview moments from reality television ever and I’m kind of shocked that in all of my discussion of scallops on this blog, I’ve never done it before now:
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…
