Been eating a lot of these amazing Ohio peaches that are now in season (the above peaches from Utica Ohio). While they are of course amazing all by themselves, occasionally you gotta change it up. Having just seen Jamie Oliver make a nice looking rustic apple tart, my take away from it was the idea [...]
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So to improve upon my breakfast tacos I decided this morning to make some fresh flour tortillas, in the Texas style. While many may say that flour tacos are an Americanized bastardization of the corn tortilla, they would be wrong. True corn tacos dominate mexico, but there is some flour tortillas in the north where [...]
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Last year I took a trip to Spain and brought back an amazingly cheap (around 5 euros on clearance ) paella pan that I found on clearance at El Corte Ingles (where I found myself frequently shopping with their open late grocery store – a rarity in Spain). Anyway since then I hadn’t gotten around [...]
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Recently took a trip to Austin, TX and came away wanting to go back for a number of reasons. One of them has to be the breakfast tacos, not necessarily the actual items which can be duplicated fairly easily at home, but the idea of them. There is something about the cross cutting nature [...]
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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 with [...]
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