So it’s a new year and a lot of folks are trying to live up to their resolutions. I’ve never been that into them, maybe its the cliche nature of the whole thing, but this year I’ve come up with a few basic ideas of things I’d like to try and do and hopefully cliche [...]
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Northstar is officially a Columbus institituion, having grown from a location in the Short North to having locations in Beechwald and Easton as well as opening Third & Hollywood in Grandview. Northstar does a great job of mixing genres, combining simple with upscale, quality with casual, and mixing healthy with not so much. One of [...]
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Just like the hipsters in Brooklyn we’ve been doing some home canning this summer, and with the last harvest of the year we grabbed a whole bunch of green tomatoes before the first frost hit. Hating to see such a beautiful lot go to waste we decided to turn them into some relish and can [...]
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Saw this recipe the other day on WOSU our local PBS station on an episode of Cooks Country. The recipe is for Apple Cider Chicken, which uses bone in chicken pieces, seared in a pan, where a braising sauce is then made, with the chicken then going back into the pan to finish in the oven [...]
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The other day we went out into the garden which is still loaded with vegetables (although a lot of them are green tomatoes that may never ripen with the cool wet weather now) and harvested everything we could and pitched all the bad tomatoes into the compost bin. (There were a lot of perfect looking [...]
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Saw in the NY Times this morning that California has coming into effect soon a ban on foie gras. For those that don’t remember Chicago for a time passed a similarly dumb law. Why do I say dumb? Well for one foie gras is misunderstood – go watch how it’s made, the animals treated and [...]
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Korean Taco Recently I taped the Kimchi chronicles on PBS, which oddly enough features Jean George Vongerichten and his wife Marja. Well actually it’s not that odd because it turns out his wife is Korean and hence the TV show. Watching them put together some Korean food got me excited to cook up some at [...]
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Slow Food has put forth a challenge for September 17: “THE CHALLENGE: This September 17, you’re invited to take back the ‘value meal’ by getting together with family, friends and neighbors for a slow food meal that costs no more than $5 per person. Cook a meal with family and friends, have a potluck, or [...]
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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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