I knew nothing about fish sauce before I began enjoying Vietnamese food. Back then if you suggested one day this salty, funky fermented liquid would be something I cooked with all the time, I wouldn’t have believed you. In Vietnam, fish sauce is used both… Read More
I don’t know beans. I like beans, and I like to cook, but outside of adding canned red kidney beans to make chile, I’ve never really tried to cook with them. However, there is a bag of dry navy beans in the pantry and last… Read More
What is absolutely required: flourbaking sodabaking powdersalt2-3 bananassugar (or honey or whatever….I use maybe half a cup)butter or vegetable oil2 eggs Optional stuff: chopped up applescranberrieswhatever nuts you find in the cupboardbuttermilkvanillablueberries or any other kind of berrieschocolate chipscinnamon anything else that makes you happy… Read More
Making paska, or Easter bread, has become a tradition at 27th Street. Usually we make 2 batches, or about 8 loaves so we can make lots of people around us happy, but seeing as we’re in the midst of a pandemic, we scaled back to… Read More
Mark Twain famously wrote, “The North thinks it knows how to make cornbread, but this is gross superstition”. Once can only imagine how dreadful Canadian cornbread is, eh? I will make some confessions up front. I add wheat flour to my cornbread. It’s true, I… Read More
Tuffy P requested some soup for dinner tonight. I rummaged around through the chaos which is our fridge and found some leeks, kale, carrots, celery, a few mushrooms and some Napa cabbage. I dug out some commercial stock hiding in the back of the pantry… Read More
Today from the Department of Pandemic Comfort Food, spicy stir-fried squid and broccoli, served over steamed rice, with a liberal sprinkling of fried shallots on top.
This morning I made some yummy skillet cornbread with bacon and cheese. Social distancing demands comfort food. Here’s how I did it…. Cook some bacon in a 9 inch cast iron pan until it’s crispy. Put the bacon aside on a paper towel. (OK you… Read More
We don’t cook cabbage very often, but we should because it is a remarkable vegetable which can be prepared in so many ways. Last night I roasted a cabbage and it was fabulous. Here’s how I did it…. First I cut up the cabbage and… Read More
I’ve been on the planet 58 and change years and only recently has it occurred to me to buy kohlrabi. This strange-looking vegetable is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and so on. You can cook it in all kinds of ways,… Read More
