How To Ring In a Birthday
There are questions absolutely guaranteed to cause trouble: “What else could go wrong?” “What does this do?” “Why don’t we invade Russia?” A few years ago, I planned to cook my wife a birthday dinner. […]
Tag: cooking
Wisdom for Dummies
Too many cooks really do spoil the broth. If you have too many, would you send one to my house? Find more dubious advice in I Used to Think I Was Not That Bad and […]
Lowered Standards
I don’t like to cook. Yes, I sincerely mean it. Being in a partnership means I have my share of responsibility for our food. Frankly, I have about one miserable failure a month. I learned […]
Home Cooking for Husbands Who Don’t Cook
In our house, my wife does a lot of the cooking… okay, most of the cooking… okay, all of it. I’d gladly do more. I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest culinary expert, but […]
Chicken Chipotle and Conga Lines
Mexican Entree CHICKEN CHIPOTLE INGREDIENTS 1 medium onion 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 6 chicken breasts 1 cup crema Mexicana 1 tablespoon chipotle powder ¼ teaspoon pepper ½ teaspoon salt ⅓ cup chicken stock 1 […]
Surprised by a Diary
A recent fall nesting impulse found me mining beef stew recipes and sifting through an old Victorian secretary that sat in my living room. The secretary, chock-full of my mother’s personal correspondence, had stood undisturbed […]
Hearts of Palm Pie and Why Life Is Hard
Brazilian Entree CHICKEN AND HEARTS OF PALM PIE INGREDIENTS – DOUGH 4 cups flour (3 tablespoons more later) 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1½ cups lard or butter 1 egg INGREDIENTS – FILLING […]
Hunting Mushrooms
I went out hunting mushrooms, a spore-t even I could succeed at. Kidding–I just stumbled across them by happy accident. (Literally stumbled across them, in one case.) I hate regular mushrooms. They taste like a […]
Out of the Frying Pan and into the Microwave
It seems that when people meet my partner and me, they always want to know who’s the cook, and I always ask myself, why does it matter? Most people want to automatically assign roles in […]