Growing up, the only time I’d ever eat fried chicken was the Maryland fried chicken that was usually part of the platter I’d order at Phillips down in Ocean City. I remember it being really good, but because it was something I ate so seldomly, it wasn’t something that I had a strong emotional tie…
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Padma Lakshmi’s sweet and sour shrimp with cherry tomatoes from Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook and her new show Taste the Nation, worth watching right now.
A very long time ago, back when we lived in New Haven, day trips to Manhattan were a pretty regular occurrence for us. One of these trips included good friends of ours and we spent the day visiting the MoMA, doing a little shopping at Barney’s New York, getting a drink at L’Orange Bleu…
A lamb-y take on Bon Appetit’s crispy sheet-pan meatballs with salsa verde.
With my goal of cooking out of 138 cookbooks this year, I’m generally not relying on internet recipes all that much, with a few exceptions. This is one of them–we had these meatballs for the first time back in early February when my in-laws all convened in Philadelphia to celebrate winter birthdays. My brother-in-law made…
Lamb shishlik with pistachio tehina sauce from Zahav.
There’s a lot to like about The Deacon, the AirBnB/event space we stayed at for D & E’s wedding, but one of my favorite touches was the small collection of cookbooks they kept in the kitchen. There’s a mix of indie publishers including Cherry Bombe and Lucky Peach (RIP), but I also smiled at seeing…
On Cherry Bombe’s new cookbook and their International Supper Club from this past weekend.
I was doing so well in getting back to the blogging habit, and then my weekends got busy there in October between visits home and visitors here and a trip up to New York for work, so I’ve been a little distracted from this space. I’m always eager to get back to cooking after a…
Pressure-cooker pho ga, because you definitely need some chicken soup right now.
So how are you all doing? Last week was incredibly rough (if you follow me on Instagram you know who I voted for), and it’s taken me some days to process it all. I’ve been writing every day, but I couldn’t bring myself to write about food until the weekend. Instead, I’ve been writing to…
Burrata with salsa verde and weeds as found in Enrique Olvera’s Mexico From the Inside Out.
With all of the traveling we’ve been doing in the last few weeks (two weekends ago we were in Philadelphia, and then this past weekend we were in Chicago), opportunities to cook fun stuff at home have not come as readily as they normally do for us. Since I had a half-day on Friday and…
Tomato salad with chili, black pepper, and cardamom from Madcapra’s via Cherry Bombe issue no. 7.
Recently The Kitchen Witch posted about how she likes to seduce late spring/early summer tomatoes by making punchy vinaigrettes, and her Kalamata olive one would be pretty fabulous if I liked olives more. But it reminded me of a recipe I had earmarked in the most recent issue of Cherry Bombe magazine in which you make…
A check-in, complete with a riff on Enrique Olvera’s salsa verde as paired with grilled chicken.
Hubris is a funny thing: leading up to our move, we didn’t do much in the way of packing because I think we were feeling a bit superstitious about all of it, and so the most I did was clear out two closets’ worth of boxes and other assorted items and move them downstairs so…
Crispy-skin chicken thighs and lamb koftas with lemon-tahini sauce, or two of my newest weeknight meal favorites.
As creative as we like to get in the kitchen on weekends, I have to admit that we are pretty susceptible to falling into dinner routines (or ruts, depending on how you look at it) on weeknights. If work is keeping us really busy it becomes much easier to stick with what we know and…
The Manhattan [food] Project 