Along with every other family around, we’ve been enjoying Mo Willems’s books about The Pigeon. The first installment, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, is about how you should not let the pigeon drive the bus. The second book, Iris’s favorite, is called The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog. It’s about…okay, I’ll stop now. Anyway, […]
When parents and toddlers go to war at the dinner table, I’m guessing it’s usually over vegetables. I’m working on a long post about the second rule of baby food, but here’s an enticing tidbit in the form of another broccoli recipe. It illustrates a key point about vegetable cookery: most vegetables taste best when […]
Probably inspired by too much Top Chef, I woke up with an idea in my head for a great pretentious restaurant name. The place: An upscale cafeteria located on the fourth floor of a large hospital. The name: IV
We’re still eating our way through the Anson Mills grits. Iris and I tried the quick grits the other day. In Anson Mills country, “quick” means half an hour of cooking instead of 90 minutes (but see below). They’re good, but they’re not really that different from Albers quick grits, which cook in ten minutes […]
I managed to nab one of the last two bunches of ramps at Frank’s Produce yesterday. Ramps (also known as wild leeks, ramsons, and probably some kind of cool hillbilly name like stinkgrass) are one of those stubbornly seasonal and wild crops. They appear for a few weeks in the spring and that’s it. Ramps have […]