Despite managing and working at the grocery store 7 days a week, my grandmother somehow always found the time to cook and bake. Thankfully, we found a recipe for an Armenian roll, katah, that hasn’t been tried in over 25 years.
Drat! I meant for this to go out on Sunday, but I forgot to press “publish” . . . I’m in Fresno for a quick Easter getaway to catch up with relatives and my parents, who are driving down from the Bay Area. I thought it would be fitting to share my grandmother’s tabouli (tabbouleh) [...]
Who can resist a good kitchen gadget? Our kitchen is full of them: the mandolin is great for slicing, the ice cream maker gets a regular workout, and the pressure cooker makes a mean pot of rice or roast beef. I wish we could get a little more use out of the Italian-made pasta machine, [...]
I try my best to buy fruits and vegetables when they are in season. I loved my time in Chile, but I prefer not to buy produce shipped from there. I’m staying away from salad greens, only because we got spoiled last year when we grew our own salad greens: my attempt at a winter [...]
Over the past year I have chronicled our schizophrenic relationship with food. On one had, we are finding new healthful ingredients for which we will pay a mint, yet fast and processed foods will not go away anytime soon–and in fact, the recession has been a boon to many fast food operators. So let’s take [...]
“Oh, how they COURT me!” – Nigella Lawson, cooing over her homemade holiday potato skins while wearing her trademark skin-tight cashmere sweater. It is the season for sharing good times and food–or staring at Nigella again as she enchants you with her holiday recipes. She makes everything appear so sensuously magical and easy, including [...]
The weekend before last we had a couple over for dinner: he’s vegan, she’s vegetarian, and I wanted to be a gracious host. But as a proud omnivore, I was wondering what the heck I could cook that didn’t have cheese or eggs. Well, it turned out to be pretty simple: the trick is to [...]