I drink a fair amount of tea, but I’ve managed not to be insufferable about it the way I am about chocolate or Iris is about bacon. Mostly I stick to PG Tips, a mass-market English brand of black tea. Occasionally I’ll read an article about Darjeeling or something, and try some fancy tea, but […]
Rustic fruit tarts are easy to make, look impressive, and taste great. You should probably be making them. But when I say they’re easy to make, I don’t mean to underplay Laurie’s estimable pastry skills. Examine the evidence. We’ll be eating that in about an hour, if you’re in the neighborhood.
Last night Laurie and I had dinner at Crémant, a new French bistro in Madrona. It was a great meal of classic bistro dishes. As one of our friends said, “I don’t want to order roasted marrow bones, but it’s nice to know they’re on the menu.” I had grilled sardines and French onion soup. French […]
My mom gave me a thoughtful gift: It’s the third edition, issued by the American Meat Institute in September 1941. It begins like this: The biologist states that life is built about hunger and love. This book has nothing to do directly with love. I’m completely serious. The pamphlet includes recipes for favorites such as Boiled Icing, […]
Iris has invented this new game called Kitchen in the Sky. We’ll be playing out on the balcony, and she’ll say, “Dada, put a kitchen in the sky.” So I pretend to put a kitchen in the sky. Then a plane will go by, and she’ll say that the plane wrecked the kitchen and I […]