Tuffy P asked me if I could make some kind of savoury muffins today. I thought about what ingredients I had on hand for a minute. I suppose the normal thing to do would be to look up recipes, but that’s not nearly as much… Read More
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Cooking from the garden
For years growing veggies at our home had been limited by lots of shade. I could grow spinach and lettuce and onions and some herbs and a few other things but forget about tomatoes or chilies or chard. That changed when Nick’s bungalow next door… Read More
ASMR Cooking?
Do you like to cook or enjoy learning about cooking or watching food being prepared? Check out Culinary Frank. Nobody speaks in these videos, which are referred to as ASMR cooking. They progress at a steady, chilled out pace. The shots are beautiful. Ingredient amounts… Read More
Jazzing up Instant Noodles
We have some instant noodles in the pantry. We don’t eat them often, but I thought in a pandemic, when you don’t want to go shopping any more than necessary, they will come in handy. This afternoon I decided to try jazzing them up a… Read More
Braised eggs and pork belly
When I was in Hanoi, one of my fave breakfasts came from a lady at the corner of the alleyway just down the way from my hotel. She had a sign that read XOI, which is sticky rice, but when you asked for some she… Read More
First Pesto of the Season
This morning I noticed that some of our garlic in the garden had started sending up scapes. I expect to see scapes on the rest of it in the coming week or so (I’ve got maybe 30 garlic plants in various areas of the front… Read More
Fish Sauce
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 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
Everything but the kitchen sink isolation loaf
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
Paska-licious
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
