Food

Just Like at the Coffee Shop (Currant-Buttermilk Scones)

Posted to Breakfast on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on the topic of Recipes on 4 April 2009, with 6 comments so far.

I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook.
When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a  job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me busy [...]

Hospitality

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Food on 29 March 2009, with no comments so far.

Thursday evening, 8:25 p.m.

A’s beau came up from Virginia for the weekend. He is a good guest.
Being a good guest is an underrated, or under-discussed, art in itself.
On the table: beer cocktails, in this case Guinness with cassis lambic. Not sure it was a brilliant combination, but it’s fun to sit around pouring and sipping [...]

Failure! (Tapioca Pudding)

Posted to Dessert on the topic of Food on the topic of Recipes on 15 March 2009, with 4 comments so far.

Tapioca grosses a lot of people out. There are many who’ve never even tried it. Yes, it’s the same shape as that fish-bait-smelling fish roe that you get at sushi restaurants sometimes if you’re not careful. But it’s pretty benign, just round and chewy. Suspended in a creamy, delicately vanilla-flavored pudding base, I like it [...]

Sardines, Broccoli, iPhone

Posted to Food on the topic of Product Placement on 6 March 2009, with no comments so far.

Quotidian lunch, extraordinary gadget: still life with broccoli, sardine toasts, New Yorker, and brand new iPhone.

Budget Recipes, Volume 6: What I Ate on My Late-Winter Vacation (Punk House Lentils)

Posted to Food on the topic of Recipes on the topic of Travel on 24 February 2009, with 1 comment so far.

I know five people who live in a house in West Philadelphia. One of them, I’ve known for a really long time. He told me, on behalf of all the people, that I could come down and stay in their spare room for a few days and check Philadelphia out.
The house looks out over a [...]

Oh, February (A Coq au Vin Recipe)

Posted to Food on the topic of Recipes on 22 February 2009, with no comments so far.

How I’m getting through what’s left of winter:
Weeknight Coq Au Vin

(There’s a chicken thigh hiding in there)
six pieces of chicken (I used legs and thighs), bones in and skin on
one-third bottle red wine
one package of mushrooms, cremini or white
one medium to large onion
third to half a (small) can of crushed or diced tomatoes
one bay [...]

Sweet, Peppery, Cabbagey, Wintry

Posted to Food on the topic of Recipes on 7 January 2009, with 1 comment so far.

Cabbage With Apples
~adapted from How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman

2 tablespoons butter
one small/medium green cabbage
two apples
dash of cloves
half a cup of stock or white wine
a teaspoon of cherry jam
s & p
fresh lemon juice
Chop the cabbage and the apples into pieces that you like.
Melt the butter, add the cabbage, apples, and cloves; cook, stirring, for [...]

Get Ready to Crumble!

Posted to Food on the topic of Recipes on 21 December 2008, with 1 comment so far.

Weeknight dessert fantasia.

Plum Crumble
1.25 cups rolled oats
.75 cups brown sugar (packed)
.5 cups all purpose flour
1 stick o’ butter
2 lbs. plums
scant 2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1. Mix the flour and oats in a bowl with half of the brown sugar. Add the butter, and rub it in with your fingers until the mixture becomes [...]

Fish She Is Very Small

Posted to Food on the topic of Images on 16 December 2008, with no comments so far.

Too good not to share: I found this in my iPhoto today. Some friends and I bought, and ate, these petits poissons in Montréal a couple of years ago. They were very small!

How To Cook (and Dress) A Wolf

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Books on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on 15 December 2008, with 2 comments so far.

These are the busiest weeks of the year, these couple before Christmas.
I sort of like it.
On Sunday, A— and I threw a clothing swap at our place. We had a dozen ladies over. She made cinnamon buns and I made tea sandwiches (Pernod-marinated fennel and green apple and minted radish, and lox and cream cheese [...]