I cook broccoli all sorts of ways—boil, steam, stir-fry, braise, roast. Everything short of blacken. But a recent issue of Fine Cooking introduced me to an entirely new way of cooking it. I couldn’t find the issue last night, but the recipe is so simple I recreated it from memory and it was totally fine. […]
This week in my food writing class I brought in ten potential trail mix ingredients and had the students divide into teams and create their own trail mix, then write a recipe. I deliberately brought along some weird-ass ingredients, mostly from Trader Joe’s. The students kindly gave me permission to share their recipes. Here’s what […]
On Monday I was downtown shopping for a new yo-yo (I’m not really any good with a yo-yo, but I wanted to impress Iris with my three yo-yo tricks). I was planning on lunch at Takohachi, which I’ve been meaning to post about for ages, but on the way there I passed by Tat’s Delicatessen […]
My friend Stacy was looking at the Upcoming Dinners, and she asked me whether we eat any vegetables. (She didn’t mean it as an accusation.) I said, first of all, that I wasn’t always mentioning vegetable sides, but there’s more to the story than that. This year, we’ll be eating tons of vegetables from May […]
Iris: Iris would like a stomachache. Me: Why would you want a stomachache? Iris: Iris would like one for Iris’s birthday. Me: A stomachache is when your tummy hurts. It’s not a good thing. Iris: It’s a kind of cake.
