I’m more of a planner than a doer. When I see a recipe I like, or think of a food I’d like to try, or a restaurant I want to go to, I will usually think about it for a few days or weeks before acting on it (sometimes making elaborate plans in the process). [...]
It’s been busy around here, with one project in particular eating up lots of our time: we’re remodeling our kitchen. We’re replacing almost everything: cabinets, counters, floor, lights, some appliances. After a wild few weeks of decision-making – which we survived somehow, even though, under normal circumstances, we could have spent that long deciding about [...]
Mark Bittman has been romanticizing his food processor – he says it’s one of the most versatile tools in his kitchen, and from the list of things he’s made with it… well, I’m impressed. However, his food processor is not mine, and mine couldn’t do half of these things. (I’m not sure it could do [...]
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Dried wild mushrooms are like a present that you get to open twice: when you cook with them, not only do you get to use one of the richest, most savory, most complex foods there is, you also get their broth, which is a treat to use now or later in whatever you like. Plus, [...]
I like to use lots of whole, flavorful ingredients in my cooking, and let the food’s flavor speak for itself. I suspect most people prefer to cook the same way. When you have great ingredients, it’s hard for the outcome not to taste good. But what about when you’ve whipped something up, you’re about to [...]
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but one thing I would like to do next year is make more soup, and to explore new ways of making it. Soup is great for cold winter nights, which I expect we’ll see a lot of over the next few months. Most kinds are pretty easy to [...]
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I’m a life-long tea drinker, having never developed a taste for coffee aside from the occasional iced, blended, super-sweet mocha thing from Starbucks, which is more like ice cream than coffee. As a kid, I drank a lot of herbal tea, which is not technically tea but an infusion of leaves, berries, and spices from [...]
As much as I love to cook, there are days (or even weeks) when I’m just not up to it. This has been one of those weeks – I’ve been tired, pretty drained, and just don’t feel like cooking. This happens to all of us, whether it’s the weather, a bad cold, or a rough [...]