Eat / Drink
So M gave me permission to purchase a new Weber grill. A big Weber grill. A Weber grill with propane-powered ignition for starting the charcoal. I made my way at once to the nearest home store to make the buy. Naturally, the box did not fit in the car. I made do by opening the [...]
It’s been a long time indeed since I last made anything like macaroni and cheese. That was a tasty pasta recipe, to be sure, but it wasn’t really macaroni and cheese as originally created by a benevolent Providence. I’ve been musing on mac and cheese lately, and would like to try my hand at a [...]
While awaiting my Bombay panini at Nadoz Cafe (Coronado), I browsed an issue of local foodie mag Sauce and found to my surprise that Iron Chef Catherine Cora is coming to St. Louis. Yay, I thought. Loves me some Cat Cora; I am still distressed over having missed a years-ago local appearance by her. I [...]
It’s natural and understandable, I think, that diabetes complicates the way one thinks of food. For many, to some extent or other, a certain wariness colors the culinary outlook. Food becomes – if not an outright enemy – then certainly an object of suspicion, a possible source of metabolic disaster. Can I eat this is [...]
The coming of fall invariably provokes in me this initial thought: Winter’s coming. Damn. That’s just how I roll, doncha know? Always looking for the dark side. However, this year found that moody musing immediately followed by this: Time to warm up the oven. There are certain recipes that are tailor-made for autumn and winter, [...]
A sad consequence of cooking at home: dishes, always dirty dishes, piled high in the sink and requiring your attention.1 I spend as much time washing dishes as I spend cooking food to put on them. Yes, we have a dishwasher, but pots and pans sneer at the machine and demand manual service. ↩
Some time ago, I picked up a pound of dates at the grocery store. The idea was to use them in a recipe rather than as a standalone snack; beyond that, my intention was vague and ill-formed. Last night, the notion resolved into sharper focus, and the dates met their destiny as ingredient in an [...]
Message to wives: This is what happens when you have to attend after-work meetings, and your husbands are left alone with eggs, white bread, olive oil, salted butter, and a half-pound of ribeye. No vegetables were harmed in the making of this dinner.
That is to say: I made what seemed to be a critical error while preparing Shirley Corriher’s ‘Fall-Apart Tender Slow-Roast Pork’ from her best-selling tome, Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed… and damned if it didn’t turn out to be the best roasted pork I ever made. Again: ever. My occasional cooking companion, the M5 [...]
