Its not often that I make anything Teriyaki. I am not sure why I treat Teriyaki with such distrust, somehow I see it as the dish non sushi eaters get if forced to go grab sushi (great Curb Your Enthusiasm on that). Anyway, the other day I was craving grilled tuna, you know the super [...]
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If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch me getting into a rant recently on the subject you already know that I just finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, a Berkley journalism prof and NY Times magazine contributor. The book, which I had been meaning to read for a long time, hit upon exactly a [...]
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After getting some new baking supplies from the King Arthur catalog, including some high gluten flour I made these bagels. The results? Awesome.
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For whatever reason bagels, those delicious, chewy, simple, standard, but yet hard to get perfect, breakfast item is something that many don’t make at home. (Don’t know what a bagel is? or want to know more about their history see “A short history of the bagel”). I think a lot of us think they [...]
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With cold and dark weather the norm this time of year, suddenly certain dishes that don’t look and sound so good in July become the perfect comfort foods. Of course soups and stews head up this list of comfort foods. One such stew that I came to know when doing a January trip to Ireland [...]
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A few years back Mark Bittman had a column (The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work) talking about no knead bread he had been introduced too. The bread wasn’t some soda bread or pound cake, it was a real yeast bread with character, flavor and texture, things that we all associate [...]
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Cooking tonight with some of the great stuff I’ve been getting from my CSA share. Tonight I made using a baguette from TASI a chevre panini one of my favorite street foods in Paris (goat cheese and tomato. Some salt and pepper voilà) also made some green beans with some shallots, sauted and then finished [...]
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Cleveland native and famed restaurateur and chef Michael Symon (of Lola and Lolita fame) has won a televised competition to choose the ‘Next Iron Chef’ on the Food Network. While this is probably old news to Ohio ‘foodies’ and probably foodies around the country, and despite hearing about it on the day it happened it [...]
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As I mentioned earlier the TV show No Reservations had filmed last January an episode in Cleveland (also has a link to book travel to Cleveland – how exiciting!) and I was under the impression that it was going to premier in September. I was thus pleasantly surprised to see it at the top of [...]
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If you work in downtown Columbus, you hopefully already know and frequently visit El Arepazo for lunch in Pearl Alley, the Venezuelan restaurant that puts out really good Arepas, as well as other Latin food. One of the things that ijt seems so many of us know about the place is that anything they make [...]
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