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…
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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…
Sabor de soledad: making Padma Lakshmi’s rustic wild mushroom soup, only with pasta instead of potatoes.
Michael spent much of the second week of November in Phoenix at a conference, and I didn’t go along with him this time because he was technically staying at a resort in Scottsdale, and it didn’t seem worth spending all that time on a plane to just wander around a resort, however nice it was….
Tom Colicchio’s roasted tomato risotto from Think Like a Chef.
Even the most casual of Top Chef fans know that attempting to make risotto usually does not end well for the cheftestants, though there have been a few exceptions. Some notable ones I remember include: Season three premiere: Howie actually makes a successful risotto with uni, but forgets to plate the other required component (frog’s…
Hugh Acheson’s sous vide pork belly with herb citrus salad and a tribute to Sous Vide: Better Home Cooking.
I’ve sung the praises of our immersion circulator, using it to rapidly infuse liquors and to slow-poach eggs, but it’s time to talk about the sheer versatility of this cooking method. Since we’ve been encouraged to stay at home as much as possible, we’ve been putting our IC through its paces. In the first couple…
Preparing for the Feast of the Seven Fishes with Mimi Thorisson’s seared scallops and cauliflower puree with orange-caper sauce.
As I write this, we’re a week out from Christmas Eve and we’ve only started discussing what we might want to eat at my in-laws’ home for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. I did a little brainstorming on Black Friday over snacks and glasses of wine with my in-laws, but nothing terribly finalized, and…
Roasted carrot and ginger soup, thoughts on Thanksgiving, and ways to pay it forward.
It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is this week; on one hand it feels like fall just started, but on the other this cold streak we’re having here in MD (plus the general trend of Christmas Creep) makes it feel like we’re already in December? It’s a little disconcerting, but I guess it’s time…
Celebrating spring with Canal House Cooking’s oysters with sausage and chilled avocado-cucumber soup.
Despite the fact that the temperatures were barely cracking 40 degrees and snow was predicted to fall up in New England, there was no way I wasn’t going to let the first day of spring go by without marking it in some substantial way. I ended up flipping through my Canal House Cooking books, and…
03.06.11: dinner (vegetable tortilla and a revisit of catalan meatball soup).
I have a confession to make, but I’m not sure how you’ll take it, so I’ll provide a little back story. It started on a Friday night and the conundrum of what to do for food for the week when we were traveling Saturday through Sunday morning (really, we were in Pennsylvania for less than…
11.20.10: dinner (duck ragu with garganelli, aka hand-made penne–duck is the new turkey)
We’ve been a bit quiet this past week for several reasons, namely travel and work, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been cooking up a storm during our increasingly limited free time–and we sometimes spend our evenings making labor-intensive meals. There’s something so…comforting, or freeing, or delightful about sitting at a dining room table…
The Manhattan [food] Project 