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 […]
Sometimes my cooking gets into a Euro-American rut. When I’m feeling lazy, my thoughts turn to burgers, pasta, pan-roasted salmon. Too long without Asian food, however, I get cranky. So I’m going to try to remind myself to cook something Asian at least once a week. Tonight, it was a recipe from Eric Gower’s cookbook The […]
I made a quick Thai-inspired chicken recipe tonight and thought it came out really well. Iris ate a big square of crispy chicken skin. Combine half a 14-ounce can of coconut milk with minced stems of one bunch cilantro, one stalk sliced lemongrass, a few grinds of pepper, three tablespoons fish sauce, and three cloves minced […]
Matt’s in the Market is a cult restaurant. You’re unlikely to stumble into it, because it’s on the second floor of a building at Pike Place Market. And when you do get there, you’ll probably have to wait. In fact, if you get there now, you’ll have to wait weeks, because it’s currently closed for […]
My vegetable adventure began with butternut squash. It didn’t go so well. I made a recipe from Fine Cooking for sauteed butternut squash chunks with ginger, garlic, and spices. As Laurie put it, “The flavor is good, but the texture is bland.” I found that any given chunk was either stringy or mushy. Conclusion: I […]