Here’s a dialogue I keep having with myself: You haven’t given them any recipes Who needs recipes? Your readers might like one or two. You know, that’s why people come to a cooking blog. For recipes. They shouldn’t. No? No. Besides, I’m not very good with recipes. Mine are always slap-dash and imprecise. Then why [...]
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Cooking methods: boil, steam, sauté
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Black Bean Tacos
I love transferrable skills. It’s one of the reasons I do my best to talk about understanding food rather than memorizing recipes. If you understand food, then you can take an idea and move it across an entire spectrum of entrees. Like, for example, the idea of including onion in a recipe without really including [...]
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The joy of breakfast: western style omelet
I relish the weekend’s slow time, morning minutes spent dicing vegetables, rendering fat and crisping bacon. The luxury to dawdle in the kitchen, allowing eggs to come to temperature, to linger moments over a sizzling pan and get a bearing on the day. And I love the decadence of a perfect omelet. This past Saturday [...]
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It’s not a failure if you end on a good note
Let’s get it out of the way: I’m sorry. I feel like such an irresponsible blogger, especially since I started with such promise, such lofty goals. Teach myself how to really cook, I said. Learn about food fundamentals through study, practice, and writing about it, the very act of articulation enough to instill in myself [...]
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