It’s Christmas day and I’m writing a piece about Kosher food. Is this multiculturalism run amok? No it’s just that things are slow at $WORK and I’ve just learned something interesting. And I’d like to share that with everyone out there.
Like most folks, I suspect, I was vaguely aware of Kosher food. I had read [...]
I was lucky enough growing up to be exposed to different kinds of ethnic foods. Of course, back then out here in flyover county, ethnic pretty much meant Mexican and Chinese. So I would have to consider dishes like Sweet and Sour to be something of a comfort food. Now Sweet and Sour pork or [...]
I apologize for the title but I just had to use it. I was making some salad dressing tonight and got to looking at the bottle of Dijon mustard and wondered, is there a Paris mustard? Or maybe a Lyon mustard? It turns out the Dijon isn’t so much about the city as a process [...]
OK, you’ve picked up a couple of good knives and you’re all ready to practice some mad knife skilez, right? Not so fast there partner. What are you going to be cutting on? Please, please don’t tell me you’re going to use that glass cutting board Mom got you or a plate.
There’s a lot of [...]
This one’s a Japanese inspired dish featuring the flavor of wasabi. If you’re not familiar with wasabi, it’s the little ball of green paste you see in your take out sushi. The taste resembles horseradish although wasabi isn’t a kind of horseradish.
I prefer to steam the broccoli instead of boiling it but if you don’t [...]
Shish Taouk is usually marinated, garlicky grilled chicken. It’s a Middle Eastern dish and, upon doing some reading before writing this, the version I make is actually a bit of a hybrid. It’s got a bit of Shawarma, a Middle Eastern version of the Greek gyro, in it as well. It’s supposed to go in [...]
When I’m in our local Bed, Bath and Beyond, I like to eavesdrop on the young couples picking out kitchen equipment for their wedding registry. “Oh, we really need this set of cookware” Or knives. Or something else. I don’t say anything in the store but I’m going to here. Specifically about knives. No, [...]
This post is here more as a place holder for me than anything else. During the summer it’s just too hot to fire the oven up so I try not to unless I don’t have a choice. One of the things that means is that I miss out on roasted garlic.
This weekend the weather has [...]
So for this new recipe I’m working on I need some garlic sauce to put over the finished dish. As much as I like garlic, I don’t really have a favorite sauce recipe. Yeah, there’s always saute garlic in olive oil and pour it over pasta but that wasn’t going to work here. I needed [...]
I didn’t really feel much like cooking tonight so I made something simple for lunch tomorrow. This is definitely one of those throw stuff in the pot until you’re happy kind of things. So, no formal recipe. I’m sure when my Indian friends see this they’ll tell me it’s nothing like real korma, but, hey, [...]