Goodness, Wednesday dinnertime already? That was how I felt when I walked into the kitchen tonight, with honestly no idea what to cook. But I had boiled a batch of chickpeas yesterday, and we had a pound of kale in the fridge. Beans love greens and greens love beans, but how to make it interesting? [...]
Tagged beans, fish, greens, kale, wednesday's supperPazi dolmasi is Turkish stuffed chard. Normally you’d make it with very large chard leaves, and stuff them with a meat or rice filling much as you would if you were making stuffed grape leaves. Then they’d be baked, probably with a bit of tomatoey or lemony sauce to keep things moist. The chard leaves [...]
Tagged bison, chard, Garden, home cooking, leafy greens, monday's supperI’m a mostly improvisational cook. I read cookbooks like other people read novels, as a leisure activity, but rarely refer to them while I’m cooking. Now and then I cook someone else’s recipe precisely as written, but I mostly use other folks’ ideas and methods as platforms upon which to build. For years I was [...]
Tagged bread, cake, desserts, fruit, home cookingWhat’ve I been up to recently? Well, I’m still writing a book. And a second book. And trying to find time to work, now and then, on a third book. But I’ve also been making a lot of these little bundles of joy: Including for a little event we called Dumplings Take Over The World, [...]