Roll Your Own Sushi
It’s easy! Step one, prepare ingredients and surface for rolling Step two, roll the sushi. Step three, profit!
Redirecting Perverts to the Refrigerator Since 1999
It’s easy! Step one, prepare ingredients and surface for rolling Step two, roll the sushi. Step three, profit!
Some friends came over for dinner last night and I decided I would go all out and make a multi-course extravaganza. We’ve been touting the excellence of Mark Bitterman’s new book, Salted: A Manifesto on the World’s Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes, to anyone who will listen so I made sure to highlight salts in…
What do you do when your dad has 7 acres of pomegranate trees? Make pomegranate juice of course. Then reduce it into a simple syrup for use on a million things! I seeded 6 pomegranates and put the seeds into the blender. Then pressed the blended mush through a fine mesh strainer. 3 cups pomegranate…
Oh so easy, oh so amazing. On the advice of the wonderful Rebecca from TLC Ranch (where I get my pork and eggs) I thawed the pork loin chops I bought in brine. I put about, I’d say, 1 c. of salt to about 1 gallon of water. In the brine I added a bay…
4 medium cucumbers (mine were actually pickling cukes) 2 small zucchini 2 cloves garlic 3T lemon juice A small handful of basil 5-6 mint leaves salt and pepper Put all that in a blender or food processor and zap it until it’s soup! I garnished with some chopped chives, a couple of quartered cherry tomatoes…
I didn’t get a picture of this soup. I was so hungry I forgot! 1/2 a yellow onion, chopped 2 oz diced pancetta 1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced Add to pot and saute in olive oil until beginning to brown. Add: 1/2 cup white wine. 2 small carrots, sliced into half moons Simmer until…
Rub snapper fillets with grated ginger and garlic. I grate them on my microplane grater right over the fish…works pretty well. Pour juice of 2 limes over the fish. I let it sit for about 30 minutes. Not long enough to cure the fish but long enough to get a good flavor. Drizzle with olive…
Simple and delicious. Grill salmon with just some salt, pepper and olive oil. In a grill basket, toss some broccoli florets and chopped summer squash. Cook all that until it’s done. Meanwhile (on the stove not the BBQ) sauté up some chard with garlic and chili flakes. When the grilled veggies are done, mix those…
We had some friends over for the 4th and wanted to make something nice and fancy but that still had some element of the Independence Day barbecue thing going on. I started with my classic ahi tartare. It’s becoming a bit of a signature dish for me, it’s always good and everyone loves it. Next…
I didn’t eat meat for years. Not because of ethics or anything like that, I just stopped liking it. One day, a while back, I thought “BBQ chicken sounds good.” Not the kind with barbecue sauce on it but herbed, marinated chicken. This is what I had and it’s still my favorite way to barbecue….
Exhausted from vacation…aren’t they tiring? I had a chicken, I had leeks from my CSA, I have sage in the garden. That’s a meal right there! 1 whole chicken 3 leeks, chopped 1/4 cup butter (sliced into pats) 10-12 sage leaves (4 leaves chopped, leave the rest whole) 1-2 T chopped fresh thyme Salt, pepper,…
Before: 2 leeks, chopped 2 green garlics, white and pale green parts, chopped 3 small carrots, diced Saute all that in some butter until everything is soft. Add 1 cup white wine and cook most of it off. 4 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped 4 c. chicken stock Add to pot, bring almost to a…
Here’s what I picked up from my CSA this week. Apples Arugula Asian stir-fry mix Broccolini Chard Cilantro Young fava bean pods Green garlic Baby red Russian kale Leeks Red leaf lettuce Mizuna Strawberries I have some catching up to do from last week!! We didn’t finish last week’s broccolini so tonight we’re having Farfalle…
Mixed spring greens salad: Mixed spring greens (duh!) 1/2 grapefruit per dish (segmented and sliced) 3 radishes per dish Parmigiano-Reggiano slices Dressing: 1 shallot Juice from 1 lemon 1 T orange juice 1 T grapefruit juice 1 T parsley salt & pepper ~1/4c olive oil (I never measure this, just whisk until it looks and…
More experimenting with the CSA box contents! The one thing in the box that was a mystery to me, preparation-wise, was the 1/2 dozen rutabagas. I sent out a plea on twitter. I got a lot of good recipes. I decided though, being that I’d never made them before, I wanted to do something simple…