Pate IK
Anthony Bourdain, ever irreverent, has this to say of paté-making: You’ve made meat loaf, right? You’ve eaten cold meat loaf, yes? Then you’re halfway to being and ass-kicking, name-taking charcutier. ‘Oooh…paté, I don’t know.’ Please. Campagne means country in French. Which means even your country-ass can make it.” Les Halles…
Roast Peppers Preserved Under Oil
I began writing this post two weeks ago. The world was a completely different place then. Here is a link to agencies assisting Afghan refugees, from the New York Times. Here is a link to help those impacted by the earthquake in Haiti, from National Public Radio. — It’s late…
Elegant Egg Salad Sandwich Savoury
Savouries, like the Foot Guard Uniform and cream teas, are a uniquely British institution. Modern eaters will recognize these salty, spicy, small bites as appetizers, commonly appearing before the meal with drinks. Famous savouries include angels on horseback–that’s a bacon wrapped prune–and Fergus Henderson’s bone marrow and parsley salad. Not…
Zucchini with Tomato and Ricotta Salata
Note: Four years later: I realized the original post had an error concerning the tomatoes. I changed the recipe. It now calls for halved cherry tomatoes. The photographs do not reflect this. The recipe does, and while the earlier recipe worked, the updated one is an improvement. This is a…
Pickled Onions
Once again your hostess would like to apologize for being such a laggardly poster. It’s not lack of interest in the blog, or in you, my readers. The truth is the same dull reason it’s always been: my health. More precisely, my back. Last week I had yet another cortisone…
Zucchini with Chaat Masala
So, I had my first Covid vaccine. I have lived to tell the tale. My insurer offered appointments online or by telephone. The web was impossible. The phone was little better: when I could get through at all, I waited on hold for hours. This is not overstatement. A few…
Chicken Liver Mousse
We can all agree this holiday season isn’t the merriest. Covid 19 has decimated the population, wrecked the economy, and generally wrought havoc in a shockingly short time. Offering up some fancy dish along the lines of foie gras feels pretty tone deaf…kinda like suggesting $600 is enough to help…
Pork Hand Pies with mismatched pictures
So, yeah, it’s been entirely too long. I have committed the blogger’s cardinal sin of not posting. I could give all the reasons, but you read the news, don’t you? And the news, it’s very bad. Read it enough, and you will become depressed. Seriously depressed. And if you are…
Rye Rolls
Pity the humble roll. Out of favor in a wheat-fearing world, the roll joins its fellow carbs in food purgatory, where its crimes are multiple: carbs, calories, and gluten. The roll’s larger brethren, better known as sliced bread or buns, continue to find some favor as sandwich wrappers. But even…
Hummus
A month of silence, and your hostess returns with a recipe that’s simultaneously controversial and lacking in originality. Like you’ve never made hummus before. Seriously, recent events have left me speechless. What was I going to do? Hop online, write a few trite sentences about Black Lives Matter, and start…