Sorry for the lapse. I’m working on a big post about noodles. In the meantime… We’re almost out of canola oil. The better I get at cooking, the longer it takes me to go through a bottle of canola oil. It’s not because I’m cooking light: it’s because when I reach for an oil or fat, I’m […]
We have entered a new and dangerous phase in Iris’s development: she has just learned to ask questions. A couple of days ago, Laurie and Iris were playing with fennel seeds in Iris’s kitchen. Iris wouldn’t stop eating the seeds, so Laurie went to put them away, but the little spice jar they came in […]
The Art of Eating is one of the strangest food magazines on the market. Give the average food journalist an assignment to write about, say, polenta, and they will go down to Whole Foods and buy a bunch of cornmeal, then compare recipes from Marcella Hazan and Lynne Rossetto Kasper and come up with a […]
Does your city have an independent donut chain? Seattle does: Top Pot Doughnuts. They offer a couple dozen varieties and are sold throughout their chain of coffee shops (which are masterpieces of retro-hip design) and at plenty of other places in town. I’ve grown pretty annoyed with Top Pot. Their prices have more than doubled since […]
I make my own bagels. Not very often, but as far as I know there’s only one place in Seattle that makes a decent bagel (Bagel Oasis), and it’s too far from my house. The two problems with Seattle bagels, just like bagels everywhere (even New York), are size and steam. Most bagels are too big, […]