No, not that kind of fabricator. Last night I was making a recipe (a streamlined coq au vin from Cook’s Illustrated) calling for boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Chicken thighs are one of my favorite ingredients. In their bone-in, skin-on form, they require almost no prep and you can marinate and roast them or brown them and […]
Warning: If Iris comes up to you and asks to be taken to a salad bar, don’t be fooled. It’s a trick. Last Monday there was an unassuming item on the dinner calendar: shelling bean salad. I had a bunch of stuff from the farmers market that needed to be eaten, including salad greens and shelling […]
I’m pretty good at getting out of Whole Foods without too many impulse buys, but what was I supposed to do about this? Yes, it’s a chocolate bar with bacon. I knew the price would be absurd, but obviously I’d put an unneeded limb on eBay to get it. The bar turned out to be $7, and […]
We went to the Broadway farmers market today and, as far as I can tell, brought back some of everything. Shelling beans, tomatillos, chiles, peaches, apples, onions, shallots, garlic, salad mix, other things I’m forgetting, and corn. The corn is gone. I converted it to pudding. I learned about corn pudding in the June issue of Saveur. […]
Iris and I were playing a game where we put on pretend costumes to scare Laurie. We hit a snag when we ran out onto the balcony making what we thought were very scary monster noises, but our neighbor Brenda laughed. Me: I’m going to be an evil sushi chef. Iris: People won’t be scared, they will […]