I made an excellent dinner last night, if I do say so. It was duck leg stew with red wine and mushrooms, served over Anson Mills grits. Not exactly summer, but neither was the weather. I put down Iris’s plate with grits and some chunks of duck, and by the time I got back to […]
I like summer, because dishes in the dishrack dry really fast.
I mentioned that I had a lettuce-related plan but I was coy about the details. This week in Culinate… The omnivore’s salad We’ve been eating salad a couple times a week since the farmers market started. Iris has even been gnawing on a leaf here and there. I mention this only briefly in the article, but roasted asparagus, […]
I’m a pretty good cook. I can work without a recipe. I am proficient with sauteing, frying, broiling, and steaming. But I’ve never grilled. That’s an exaggeration. When I was a teenager I used to take a couple of frozen Costco beef patties from the freezer, go out on the patio, and fire up the gas […]
You know how I feel about corn. On the off-season, I sometimes turn to canned or frozen corn, but am usually disappointed. Canned tastes canned (which is actually a very nice thing in cornbread, to which I like to add a can of creamed corn), and frozen gets tough if you cook it for more […]