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4 July 2014
Two Fourth of July Dips
Real Salsa and Yuppie Salsa A good friend, whom I’m lucky enough to have live just a block away, holds a Fourth of July barbecue every year. The Fourth also (...)
1 June 2014
Pickled peppers
Okay, so way way too late for Passover. Actually, this last Passover I basically cooked an entire meal for thirty people practically by myself so I didn’t have (...)
31 March 2014
Blood Orange Liqueur
The first time I’d even heard of blood oranges I was in Rome on a school choir trip my senior year of high school. We had a free hour before dinner, and I’d (...)
21 January 2014
Slivovitz plum infusion recipe
I’d bought the last of the summer plums at the farmer’s market and hauled them home. I’d combined them with sugar, vodka, lemon peel, and spices, and then (...)
16 January 2014
Wine Jelly
The guy working at my wine store looked at me like I had two heads when I told him I needed a dry white to make wine jelly out of. The guys who work at my wine (...)
14 January 2014
Apple Jelly
I kept thinking on Nietzsche while I was making this jelly. My boyfriend and I had gone to the farm, picked the apples from the trees, and then hauled them all (...)
19 December 2013
Membrillo Paste
When it comes to sweets, I harbor a special love for all things chewy. From Swedish Fish and Twizzlers to Dutch salt licorice and pate de fruit. With the (...)
28 November 2013
Thanksgiving Hanukkah Doughnuts
I have never been that big a fan of Thanksgiving: lots of mediocre food, mediocre relatives, and hours and hours of boredom sitting around waiting to eat a not (...)
11 October 2013
Bluefish with plantain, hot slaw and salsa verde from palo santo
We’ve been going to Palo Santo in Park Slope since they first opened their doors years ago. I think it’s the best restaurant in the neighborhood, and that’s (...)
11 October 2013
Peanut Butter
One summer at camp, a counselor who hailed from Sweden looked over at the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I’d made at lunchtime, and exclaimed, “What an (...)
21 September 2013
Paleo ham steak
The Saturday of Labor Day weekend, I decided to do some grilling, Sunday and Monday being taken up with other commitments. I have never entirely understood (...)
27 August 2013
Root Beer Liqueur
I’m always on the lookout for new liqueurs to make. This one stuck out for me because I’d been reading The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Elix Katz, and was (...)
15 August 2013
Peach chutney
At Phillip’s Farms this week the trees available to the pick-your-own pickers were heavy with gorgeous peaches—almost none of them ripe, unfortunately. Not (...)
14 August 2013
Paleo Blackberry Jam
We went down to Phillip’s Farm in Milford, New Jersey a few days ago and went picking. I hadn’t been to a pick-your-own farm since childhood, and experiencing (...)
9 August 2013
Lemon Sole with Anise and Cucumber
I like that I can get away with using catastrophic amounts of butter in my cooking so long as I think of what I’m making as ‘cuisine’ instead of just food. So (...)
7 August 2013
Pickled Curried Cauliflower
There’s nothing like a cold, spicy pickle to cool down a hot day in August. Most of us in America probably have bad associations with cauliflower: bags of (...)
24 July 2013
Lady Pipi’s ćevapčići
I recently returned from a vacation to Croatia. In Dubrovnik, in a restaurant called Lady Pipi, I ate some of the best grilled meat and seafood of my life. I (...)
21 July 2013
Pickled carrots
I enjoy the semi-mystical transmogrification that comes from pickling. From out of the misty, swampy, dilly brine the cucumber becomes the pickle. I am the (...)
17 July 2013
Kofta Curry
Back when my boyfriend lived in the East Village and we were broke graduate students with no clue how to cook, we ate a lot of cheap Indian food. Curry Lane (...)
21 June 2013
Bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin with cherry chutney
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sure way to improve any kind of roast is to wrap it in bacon. It adds flavor and juiciness and at the end of (...)
21 June 2013
Rainy Day Barbecued Chicken
Barbecued chicken always reminds me of my childhood. Gulping down sweet chemical mouthfuls of Country Time lemonade while my father peered over a plate of half (...)
13 June 2013
Pilgrimage to Santiago
It was my mother’s birthday recently, and she being someone who enjoys the trappings of religion but is very much of the “Lord make me good, but not yet,” ‘I (...)
21 May 2013
Spicy Tomato Chutney
Previously, whenever I’d tried cooking Indian food, the results were hit or miss. Every so often I came up with something about as good as a Tandoor Chef (...)
21 May 2013
Victorian barbecue sauce with rhubarb
I just got my very own copy of the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. Flipping through the index, I was attracted to the entry for Victorian Barbecue Sauce (...)
18 May 2013
Grilled Lamb Burgers and Harissa
I bought some ground lamb this week in order to make Claudia Roden’s kofta meshwaya kebabs on the barbecue. I mixed the lamb with shredded onion and spices, (...)
