First the mess, then the cleanup. My friend Saura Fabra runs Casa Oliver, a Spanish food mail-order house in Seattle, and she recently brought me some products to try. The one that blew me (and Iris) away was the ulmo tree honey, which is not from Spain but from Chile. I don’t know what an […]
Today in the Seattle Times: Eating the Asian Way: Less Meat, Full-On Flavor “Choosing a bag at the checkout line is typically far less important than choosing what to put in those bags,” wrote Clark Williams-Derry on Seattle’s Sightline Institute’s blog, The Daily Score. His colleague, Justin Brant, followed up with a calculation: Change the […]
On Culinate this month: Small Fry: Little fish are tasty, fun, and good for you Delicious, fresh, local fish, every morsel edible from head to tail, and they’re only $2 a pound? (The same fish counter was selling wild salmon for $28 a pound.) I made fried smelt for the family, and my daughter gobbled […]
This is perhaps so obvious it’s not even worth a post, but I made an excellent summery succotash-like side dish on Sunday. The ingredients: corn off the cob, fresh cranberry beans, fire-roasted canned tomatoes, scallions. And plenty of butter. If you don’t have access to fresh beans, try frozen limas or soybeans; I think canned […]
Yesterday at breakfast I said to Iris, “So, what should we have for dinner tonight?” “How about something from The New Steak?” she said, glancing at the bookshelf. Ah, The New Steak, repository of deliciousness. We decided on flank steak marinated with shallots and sherry vinegar and served with sauteed mushrooms and roasted potatoes. I […]
