i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
I wasn’t kidding when I said it’s going to be a week of blowfish, but looking at the damage I realize it may be more like three days of blowfish as I evidently didn’t take into account that my children would blow through them as …
It’s a northern Atlantic blowfish (non-poisonous flesh but don’t eat the organs even though it’s tempting) year in the Great South Bay of Long Island! They come in large droves, in cycles of about every 3-5 years. This means… there’s not much else in the …
I’ve really been exploring some dishes from my childhood, and this is a simple summer dish that just goes deliciously with some white rice. It’s a chilled side dish that’s really quick to put together! I don’t really have much to say about it other …
A few weeks ago I made a jar of natto and ended up forgetting about it for a couple weeks, and its pungency crossed over into douchi territory (which can be quite stinky indeed.) I ended up mixing it with seasonings (blended garlic, ginger, peppers, …
Traditionally, pork and century egg congee (Chinese rice porridge, also called “zhou/粥”) is made with pork chop and not pork belly, but it is 100000% better with pork belly (as many things often are). This porridge is normally served at breakfast or dim sum, and …
My mom gave me a yogurt maker and while I don’t particularly like or eat much yogurt, I do like and eat a lot of natto. Slippery, slimy, and pungent, it’s one of my (and my children’s) favorite things to pour over a bowl of …
A few things made making this pita bread easy and delicious, namely the closet that holds my hot water heater and my cast iron pan. Quite honestly I was always intimidated by cast iron because I heard how it requires so much upkeep. That, I …
Drunken chicken (zui ji/醉鸡) is a popular Chinese cold dish that usually whets the appetite before the main course comes on—tender poached chicken is marinated in Shaoxing wine, delicious and juicy and oh so easy to eat a lot of (or too much of) before …
I don’t often get to eat Halal cart food, but when I do I usually ask them to just absolutely drench it in white sauce—which is weird because I generally don’t like mayonnaise based sauces. However, they always leave me wanting more. Just a little …
Ah, my latest obsession–Brazilian Cheese Bread. I actually had this for the first time at a Brazilian steak-house in my adulthood, and enjoyed the pillowy, cheesy delights which I unfortunately tried very hard not to fill up on. It’s very much a if-bread-and-mochi-had-a-baby type texture …