Lemons, Liquor, and Dreaming of the Italian Sun
So, do you feel like your life could use a little bit more sunshine these days? Winter may be enchanting in December, and the promise and romance of the new year gets everyone off to a good start in January, but, come late February, all that cold and wet and grey just seems to hang...
Waste Not, Want Not (And Have the Best Afternoon Tea Around)
So, if you’ve been keeping the sourdough starter from the first installment of the Reuben Quest, you will have been regularly needing to throw away some of the spent starter in order to refresh it with new flour and water. If you’re at all like me, the notion of regularly and systematically throwing away foodstuffs...
Football Chili
As Super Bowl weekend approaches, it’s time to start thinking about and preparing your Super Bowl Chili. Chili is one of those dishes with a hundred different ways to make it (see Jackson’s Hearty Fall Chili of 2009). It is a dish that freezes well, and is always better the next day. Chili should reflect...
Panko-Crusted Strawberry-Port Salmon
This quick and easy dish is inspired by Joseph Lavoie who was actually looking for a dish to serve with leftover Thanksgiving cranberry sauce and also wanted to try out something that could be served on a bed of quinoa. The result follows. The strawberry-port topping here can be substituted with cranberry sauce. PREPARATION Preheat...
OF GREENS, GRAINS, and GOOSEFOOTS…
Have a killer main course dish but want something to pair with it that isn’t overcomplicated and won’t beat down your main? There is something to be said for simple, complementary side dishes. Sure, I can make a pretty good Chicken Cordon Bleu, but when paired with gnocchi in gorgonzola cream sauce many...
The Reuben Quest: Part II – Sauerkraut
So, with any luck, in the time that has passed since the last installment of the Reuben Quest, your sourdough starters have transformed from sweet little pots of floury goo into happily bubbling little microbial villages, primed and ready for hitherto unexplored dimensions of bread baking. This brings us to the next component of our...
