I have been on a Middle Eastern cooking kick lately, at least where Middle Eastern is defined as the stuff from Middle Eastern cuisines that Americans normally eat. We had an entire globe eggplant and it was brutally hot, so I figured the way to use it was to make a nice cool baba ghanoush […]
I do not get along with doughs and pie crusts. Let me rephrase that. I like eating them very much, but I am bad at yeast-raised breads, impatient with frozen phyllo dough and not at all fond of doing pie crusts by hand. Until I got my greedy hands on J.’s food processor, I would […]
One of my favorite Thai dishes is pad prik king. It’s spicy and contains green beans, which I adore when they’re really fresh. Months ago, somewhere on the Internet, I discovered that I can jury-rig a version of prik king at home with red curry paste, sugar and soy sauce (or fish sauce, but the […]
As a rule, I am not as excited about writing restaurant reviews as I am about writing recipes. However, I am pleased to say that I am making an exception for the Kogi truck. What is Kogi, people outside LA and NYC might ask? It is, and I am not making this up, a food […]
It’s summer in Southern California, so of course I’m in love with a food that grows in humid forests! Actually, we got another good price on button mushrooms — so good, in fact, that I ran out of ways to give them the starring role in dishes that I haven’t made recently. So J. intelligently […]
