Back when we lived in Stamford, I blogged about making Alton Brown’s “Positively, Absolutely Not Real Bouillabaisse” while we watched Day for Night/La Nuit Americaine, and while making the stew is kind of a pain due to the sheer number of ingredients it requires, the non-fish flavors have stayed with me ever since, because they’re…
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Matbucha (Moroccan tomato and pepper salad) with soft scrambled eggs from Israeli Soul.
Last August, after our little venture to Centralia and our college reunion in, M and I took our friend C to Philly so she could get her flight to Dublin and we decided to spend the night in the city and head back first thing Monday morning. We hadn’t properly celebrated Michael’s birthday at that…
Homemade harissa from Moro: The Cookbook.
In response to the executive order on immigration issued at the end of January, I’ve seen some food sites offer lists of cookbooks that celebrate the foods of the seven countries listed in the ban, with one of Food52’s selections being the book Moro: The Cookbook. I’ve been wanting to write about this book for…
09.03.12: dinner (Pacific cod ceviche and Terra-Chip-crusted scallops)
This is not going to be a normal post with a pithy (ha!) little story about this particular meal, because I have been staring at this photo of ceviche for a few weeks now and still can’t come up with something about Labor Day that isn’t completely banal. I mean, I could go all “bla…
9.02.12: dinner (gazpacho and pollo al pimentos)
I’ve never liked the lamentations that often accompany Labor Day, all bemoaning the end of the summer. First of all, summer is not over; September 20th marks the beginning of fall. And it’s not as if the weather immediately resets itself to autumn mode, either–the mere act of going into my closet Sunday morning to…
07.10.11: dinner (all-i-pebre de llagostins, tortilla de vegetales y torrada mallorquina. Oh–and two World Cups.)
Remember this from a year ago? Oh, I still do. I can still remember the emotions when I watched that game a year ago (when this posts): I can still feel how I was wracked with anxiety, willing the Spaniards to overcome that whole “no team has ever won a World Cup when they lost their…
06.18.11: dinner and a movie (quasi-bouillabaisse and Day for Night).
People used to stare at fires. Now they watch TV. We need to see moving images, especially after dinner. –Francois Truffaut, Day for Night. Day for Night, simply put, is an amazing film. It’s joyous, hilarious, sad, and absurd. It’s a triumph of love and dedication and personal expression, and true to its tagline, it…
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…
12.05.10: dinner (braised lamb with tomatoes and peppers over toasted fideos)
I saw the first flecks of snow while in Stamford, waiting for the 6:57 clutching a box of penne alla puttanesca and a little bottle of Cabernet Sauvingnon, all the while cold and thankful for the real pashmina that my best friend had gifted her bridesmaids back in July. Though winter is still officially eight…
11.28.10: dinner (stracciatella and fritatta, inspired in part by Nigella)
I have to say that I kind of love the habit of coming home after a weekend trip to Pennsylvania and indulging in a soup and an eggy dish. We did it back in August with gazpacho and our ugly-but-delicious tortilla, and after Thanksgiving we toasted to our uneventful Amtrak ride with lovely stracciatella and…
The Manhattan [food] Project 