Chickpea Chorizo Soup
This soup reflects continuing adventures in one-handed cookery while I struggle with Right Lateral Epicondylitis, whose onset last week was as abrupt as it was painful. I can’t pretend it’s been a good time, but people are stressed enough without my bitching. Let’s talk about Nigella Lawson for a minute…
Bacon
If one considers a bagel with lox and cream cheese breakfast nirvana, it’s hard to understand the fuss over bacon.The current trend of pairing bacon with foods commonly considered dessert, like ice cream or chocolate bars, doesn’t help matters. In fact, some of us find it nauseating. When one considers…
Italian Meat Loaf
What makes this meat loaf Italian? I honestly haven’t a clue. But the recipe, which comes from Tamasin Day-Lewis’s Supper For A Song, is one I’ve made countless times. By its nature variable, this is a kitchen-sink meatloaf: in the recipe headnote, Day-Lewis says one should “inspect your fridge for…
The IK Basic Burger
Restaurant menus offering hamburgers with overly fancy toppings or exotic fillings make me extremely nervous. No, I don’t want artisanal French cheese, hand-foraged field mushrooms, or Iberian ham atop my burger. Tapenade doesn’t belong inside a burger, though I once followed a misguided recipe calling for just such a combination. …
Unbarbecued Pork Tenderloin
Originally this recipe was titled “Pork Tenderloin a la clueless Juive”–that is, pork tenderloin a la clueless Jew–but I worried about offending people, even if the clueless Jew in question is yours truly. When John and I took up housekeeping together, nay these many years ago, he humbly asked if…