People, I have neglected you. Is the magic gone? Can’t we work this out? Let me answer that in five beautiful words: Corn will also be served. Every summer, and on into fall, I buy corn from Alvarez Farm on Sunday and cook it up the same night. This year I came across two best-ever […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
