Pork Chops with Mustard Sauce
Also known as Cote de Porc a la Charcutiere. (The ability to add accent marks appears to have vanished.) Do know this recipe is French, and comes from the late Anthony Bourdain’s Le Halles Cookbook. Pork Chops with Mustard Sauce is all about the sauce, which is made from butter,…
Omelet with Chinese pickled vegetable
Soaring fuel prices are forcing many people, myself included, to reconsider everything we were taught about “good cooking.” Especially now, when we would normally be starting to prepare stews, bone-in roasts, and soups, dishes demanding hours of slow cooking. Gourds. Official harbinger of Fall. Well, these and pumpkin-spiced coffee drinks,…
Cheap Steak (flap steak in a Port Marinade)
“Cheap” is a relative term, of course. At a time when the cost of living is soaring, and the price of food along with it, steak isn’t featuring in many diets. While porterhouse and prime rib are off the menu for the forseeable future, flap steak, a cut resembling skirt…
Turkey Mini-Burgers
Turkey mini-burgers happened because I detest turkey. Doesn’t that make you want to dive right in? Seriously, we live in a divisive era. Everyone has an opinion, and few of us want to hear the opposing side. This extends to what we put in our mouths. So, in a miniscule…
Amanda’s Chocolate Cookies
Amanda’s Chocolate Cookies comes from Amanda Hesser’s Cooking For Mr. Latte, where it is called Chocolate Chunk-Pecan-Coconut Cookies. As I have changed the recipe a great deal, removing the both the pecans and the coconut shreds, I have altered the name accordingly. The result is a hefty chocolate chip cookie,…
Laurie Colwin’s Boiled Beef
Last week, between bouts of doomscrolling, I remembered Laurie Colwin’s essay about boiled beef. The best boiled beef I ever ate was at the Ukrainian Restaurant at the Ukrainian National Home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I would gladly go out in a violent storm and walk over…
Spinach and Potato Saute
Before I began blogging, I bought a how-to book: blogging for luddites. It covered all the basics: posting regularly, how to shoot pictures for a blog (the thing I feared most, believe it or not), SEO, advertising, newsletters. I didn’t follow most of the author’s advice, but found the book…
Chocolate Malted Muffins
Chocolate malted muffins? Chocolate for breakfast? Okay, a muffin barely this side of cupcake isn’t exactly breakfast of champions. This said, the chocolate malted muffin’s nutrition profile may be improved by exchanging chocolate chips for dried fruits or nuts. Consider dried cranberries, currants, or a handful of almonds. Frozen strawberries…
Chicken Thighs with Chickpeas in Tomato Sauce
Hi. Your hostess returns. On December 16th I got my third Covid booster. The first two were Pfizer, and no big deal. The third was Moderna, and made me so sick John considered calling an ambulance. (Despite the above, I still think everyone should get vaccinated and boosted. A few…
Savory Cheddar Cheese Muffins
Ah, November. The container ships are in backed up in the harbor, and with them, some of the holiday craziness normally upon us by now. Am I a grinch to be grateful? Not that I hate the holidays. I don’t. But the enforced cheer is wearying, especially when it starts…