The last few days I have had a wonderful houseguest, visiting all the way from Melbourne, Australia. She’s vegetarian, and I had promised her vegan Chinese dumplings, so last night we made vegan wonton. There are a couple different ways you can roll with a vegan dumpling filling and still have it be pretty solidly [...]
This is my version of a Claudia Roden recipe. It’s gluten-free, dairy-free, easy, Passover-safe, and it has only four ingredients. Well, OK, six, if you count the stuff you use to prep the pan. You need a 9-inch springform pan. You also need a food processor and an electric mixer, or a good food [...]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am prone to eating bits of animals that are not commonly eaten in typical North American culture. Last Sunday I hosted a Not Exactly A Super Bowl dinner party, in large part a celebration of the Chinese New Year, whose tagline was “twice the pigskin, none of [...]
The phrase, as you know, is “easy as pie.” But it should be “easy as cake.” Cakes are easier than pies. There is no reason you, or anyone, should ever have recourse to packaged cake mix. This assertion will doubtless rankle some, but oh, as they say, well. If you have eggs, flour, butter, milk, [...]
I’ve been ill this week, one of those vile head colds that makes eating an unpleasant grind. Cookery has consequently been of a limited and boring sort. But I did finally block off the time, today, to process a large pile of gorgeous organic homegrown Meyer lemons given to me by a friend whose parents [...]
So you say you need a dessert for a holiday gathering, but you’ve had enough of feeling bloated and over-sugared and you’d like something less cloying than another platter of sugar cookies? Simple. Simpler than simple, in fact. Take several nice pink or ruby red grapefruit. How many is up to you. I allow one [...]
For all those of you who are cooking a turkey for Christmas, I just thought I’d chime in with a little encouragement and advice. I cooked a turkey yesterday, because it was turkey-cooking time, and it made me remember that there are an awful lot of folks who end up staring down a turkey only [...]
Sea salt caramels aside, Americans have been slow to warm to the idea of combining savory and sweet. There are occasional exceptions, like fruit-based salsas, or honey-mustard combinations, and of course sweet molasses-y barbecue sauces. But whenever I talk about things like, say, the classic French noisettes de porc aux prunes, which is an out-of-this-world [...]
Tagged apples, cauliflower, soupDoes this count as regifting? Or just as being resourceful? It came to me this morning while I was rolling out dough for Nancy Silverton’s awesomesauce graham cracker recipe (make them with whole wheat pastry flour!) that I had a sizeable two year old bottle of homemade limoncello in the cupboard and that at the [...]
This is not one of those Pretty Foods. Onion marmalade is dark and thick and when you try to photograph it — or at least when I try to photograph it, which might be a different matter — it looks kind of like motor oil with lumps in. So I have chosen not to subject [...]