Maybe it’s the Julie and Julia hype, but we’re off boeuf bourguignon and heavy beef stews made with red wine. Sometime it’s just too much. We love leftovers and we don’t look forward to digging this dish back out of the fridge. That’s a tell. Osso Bucco is the alternative. It’s rich and succulent like [...]
Osso Buco for Two (For About Three Nights)
February 19, 2010
May 31, 2009
Our Louis tagged the 8th grade home plate a few nights ago and we needed to be ready for the after party well before we left the house. Antipasto was the answer. We rolled home, pulled out the platters, poured the wine, raised our glasses to Louis and a job well done, and ate. Grilled [...]
April 16, 2009
Thinking back on our years in the kitchen, it’s easy to spot phases we’ve put ourselves through. Min calls them jags. A thing, a place, a dish, a season, or a recipe speaks to you. Once it has your attention, it takes over. In time, the next jag shows up and away you go. There [...]
April 15, 2009
Here’s a hot tip from the cruise ship lido deck. While your fellow passengers wait in the slow-moving line at the breakfast buffet omelet station or ponder the panorama of pastries, head for the steaming pots of oatmeal and grits. Look for a third pot with a tent card reading “Oriental Porridge” or congee. This [...]
March 1, 2009
Pimped-Up Poverty on a Plate is our latest jag thanks to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. His plea to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” is especially timely. Recessions are great for snapping us out of our collective conspicuous over-consumption and bringing us back into the [...]
January 30, 2009
I have a love-hate relationship with canned broth. I want to like it and the convenience. I tried the canned stock vs. broth. Why does it all taste like salty water? So why don’t we all make stock at home? I’ll tell you why–because it seems like such a messy big deal. It’s so much [...]
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