Today on Gourmet.com: Gado-Gado and a New Grandma You can find an excellent gado-gado recipe in James Oseland’s book Cradle of Flavor. As I read the book, however, I became increasingly jealous of the author and his generous friends, who ply him with spicy delights as he makes his way through Indonesia. Two can play […]
I’ve mentioned before that I love Daiso, the Japanese dollar-store. Now Iris loves it too, ever since I brought her there and told her she could pick any toy in the store. (The most expensive toys in the store are $5, but most are $1.50.) She chose a gaudily-painted ceramic princess. The tennis game I […]
Today on Culinate: Patty Cake You can make fresh sausage so flavorful that a little goes a long way, and thereby encourage yourself to use meat as a flavoring rather than the main event, just like Mark Bittman told you to. Wait, where are you going?
Years ago I reviewed a restaurant with the awesome name of Jack’s Tapas Café, Mainly Chinese. My favorite dish there was a stir-fry of lamb and napa cabbage, with lots of rice vinegar. I could eat stir-fried napa cabbage every day, but for some reason I’d never gotten around to recreating this recipe at home until […]
There are a thousand books out there about feeding children, but most of them are cookbooks, medical books, or self-help books for dealing with specific problems. Almost none of them are actually about, well, feeding children: stories about what it’s actually like, stories that make other parents smile in recognition. I felt enough of a void […]