Wines can take years to make and mature. Alcohol can take months to infuse. Pickles can take weeks to soften in brine... ...so 5 days for ginger confit should be nothing. It should be like getting to the end of one breath and instead of getting bored and moving on to your next … [Read more...] about Patience and Ginger Confit
Balance and Seaweed Salad
I ate this over the course of three days and not on one day did I remember to take a picture. Well, the seaweed is long, wide, flat, green and slimy -- kind of like "not my tagliatelle noodles" pictured above -- except my green guy looked like a forest and weren't so perfect. … [Read more...] about Balance and Seaweed Salad
A Peck of Pickled Peppers Not Picked By Peter
I'm not sure if that's actually what I meant to write or if it's just tactile stuttering because I can barely feel my fingers... It was a long bike ride from Jean-Talon this morning and the Tunisian dates and the bison rib didn't keep me warm from the inside out as I'd hoped. I … [Read more...] about A Peck of Pickled Peppers Not Picked By Peter
Pauper’s “Raw” Sun-dried Tomato Pesto and Life-Lemon Juice at Chez Snips, Part 2
I ran out of lemon juice, but I doubt that jives metaphorically with life not giving me lemons anymore. My point is that there was plenty of "life-giving-me-lemon"-juice left over after I made a pound and a half of roasted jerusalem artichokes, and plenty of free time. What do … [Read more...] about Pauper’s “Raw” Sun-dried Tomato Pesto and Life-Lemon Juice at Chez Snips, Part 2
When Life Gives You Lemons You Roast Jerusalem Artichokes (Part 1)…
...Or maybe that's just me. The thing is, I love lemons, but if they were all life gave me, I'd be a well-fed, yet unhappy person. Until today I'd had four beautiful items sitting in my kitchen waiting to be cooked and no time in which to cook (or 'un-cook') them. So when life … [Read more...] about When Life Gives You Lemons You Roast Jerusalem Artichokes (Part 1)…
Lemon and Thyme Roasted Fennel: “How Did I Get So?”
Dear Fennel, I feel as though a beautiful song by Ingrid Gatin aptly reflects how I feel about our relationship. Please watch this video before reading the rest of my letter: "Time swelled the moment that we started"...I washed you and cored you carefully, then thinly sliced … [Read more...] about Lemon and Thyme Roasted Fennel: “How Did I Get So?”
One Love Fennel: Roasted Pasta Sauce or Ragout
I went to my fruit guy in Jean-Talon, Leopoldo. He doesn't do local. Neither did he have ataulfo mangoes (though he did the next week), and I knew the white peach and white nectarine seasons were over, so why did I go back to him? Because that's my Sunday. He makes my Sunday a … [Read more...] about One Love Fennel: Roasted Pasta Sauce or Ragout
The Most Important Part of Thanksgiving: Being Thankful for Chicken Stock?
I mean, friends and family are all well and good, but chicken stock... I shredded every morsel of flesh off that bird. Knives aren't good enough (or maybe I should say I'M not good enough with knives?). Then I threw the broken carcass in a big pot of water so that the body is … [Read more...] about The Most Important Part of Thanksgiving: Being Thankful for Chicken Stock?
Rooibos Chai Tea
This is my second Ochado tea. They're from the Marché Fermier that's currently closed, but you can order online. Chai is an easy thing to make since it's just a blend of whole spices, all of which I already have, but this is a rooibos chai, and I don't exactly have the right … [Read more...] about Rooibos Chai Tea
Thanksgiving Roasted Turkey With Chocolate Sourdough Dried Fig, Apricot, Date, Cranberry, an Apple Stuffing
Turkey is so easy. The bird had been sitting in wait overnight, being moisturized by the Sichuan peppercorn salt under its skin and in its belly. Next step was to stuff it with the Chocolate Sourdough dried fruit stuffing and sprinkle the top with more of the salt. Then a pastry … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving Roasted Turkey With Chocolate Sourdough Dried Fig, Apricot, Date, Cranberry, an Apple Stuffing