“What is the one food that will change people’s lives when they start making it at home?” I’ve been getting this question a lot, and I still pause and stumble over it. I just don’t quite have a clean answer. My best answer is butter. It’s quick, it works every time, and it will wow…
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how to peel an egg and other tricks
I’ve come to think that cooking involves a bit of hunger and intuition, mixed with a whole lot of tricks. I’ve got plenty of hunger, and I want food to satiate it! There were times when I was in college that I lived on power bars and whole grapefruit. That was my lunch–every single day….
a weekend mix
This week, I asked the girls to pick some of the hundreds of violets in the yard, so that I could finally candy them. Every year, I want to candy the violets, and then the time passes, or Joey mows the lawn, and I lose my chance. So the other day, there I was, with…
beef bulgogi
There’s a cookbook that has really taken over around here. Let me first say that my relationship with Martha Stewart has been a little topsy-turvy, to say the least. Martha and I first met when I was maybe sixteen, when my fancy aunt in Mill Valley was trying to teach me the skills that she…
swap
Yesterday, Joey and I hopped in the car, crossed the state line, and made our way to Troy, NY for the From Scratch Club food swap. The FSC had invited me to give a little talk and to sign books during the food swap, but I had an ulterior motive. I had read about their…
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