A friend of mine, Kevin Hopp, who used to live here in BA and now lives in the Florida Keys, proposed that we come up with a sort of online cooking competition. But not really a competition, because we’re more than a few kilometers apart, and no one can really do much more than judge… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #1
I once lived in a small, three room apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, where the first thing I did on moving in was paint each room a different color. One a sort of hunter green, one a deep leather brown, and one charcoal. I was in a dark, earthtones phase. It was a trifle gloomy.… Read More Color and Crusts
I’m just going to jump right into the dinners from this last weekend, without any long commentary. All went smoothly, a nice change of pace from recent weeks. Our heart of palm tart with manchego cheese and chipotle chili. Balsamic glaze underneath, arugula salad with mustard and smoked balsamic vinaigrette above. Minestrone d’Asti – potatoes,… Read More The Weekly Dinner Roundup
It has been a few months since I last sallied forth on the quest for pizza along the 92 bus route. There are several reasons, none of them a lack of interest in pizza. Mostly logistical – as the quest has gotten further and further away from home the time commitment involved has gotten greater… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 44-48
As some of you who follow me on various social media know, I’ve been playing around with “zucchini gnocchi”. Not zucchini flavored gnocchi where, as one friend suggested, I dehydrate and powder the zucchini and add it to regular ones, but those where the zucchini basically takes the place of the potato. In truth, despite… Read More GadZucchs!
We all have days or weeks when we’re not feeling overly creative, the cook’s equivalent of writer’s block, and sometimes, we just kind of run out of new ideas. At that point, we can either force our way through it all, or, I find that what often works best is to fall back on things… Read More Mostly, Tried and True
Early last month I got to thinking that it would be really nice if I knew more about how to use my camera on something other than its automatic settings. I mean, I’ve had it for two years now. Otherwise, I may as well have stuck with my old point and shoot camera that I… Read More April. With Camera.
The new issue of Marie Claire (May 2014) is out with an article on supperclubs and while we don’t play a big part in it, we are included with a photo (bowl of soba noodles and scallops) and a paragraph about us. We are also, apparently, located a significant distance from Hong Kong…(actual distance is… Read More We Take Off for Space