Laurie and I got into a long discussion about why people like the foods they do. We did not come to any conclusions, but we did turn it into a parlor game. At the risk of coining a meme: if you could only eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it […]
I was going to write a column about rice cookers. Then my editor emailed and asked if I’d read this column in the Washington Post:
Who Needs a Rice Cooker?
Grr, Washington Post! This is just the column I wanted to write, so I’m not going to bother. Enjoy.
On Serious Eats:
Cooking with Kids: Bacon Doughnuts
Try this at home, really. The bacon doughnuts were better than breakfast for dinner. Even my daughter Iris, age four, liked them. At least, I think. “What was your favorite doughnut?” I asked her. “The bacon,” she replied. I beamed, until […]
Pickles are tasty, aren’t they? Not just dills, but Vietnamese pickled carrots and daikon, kim chi, Japanese tsukemono, whatever.
I have a couple of favorite Seattle pickles. One is the spicy Parker Pickles from Woodring, sold at area farmers markets and Pike Place Market. These are the best pickles I’ve ever had for putting a sandwich […]
Iris and I were doing a pirate story today. Captain K. Rool drank a tainted milkshake and died, and Keelhaulin’ Katie delivered the eulogy.
Katie (me): He wasn’t a nice person, and he wasn’t even a very good pirate.
Iris: (shaking her head) But he made the best drinks.
