“So what are you doing now, just coming home every day and thinking ‘Let’s see…do I want to watch “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”, or cook an entire Alinea dish…
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Continuing on with the roes, I’m down to one tin left: smoked steelhead roe. It’s a garnish in this dish, both inside and out. The ‘croquette’ here is a crunchy…
I mentioned in my last post that in buying Brooke Trout roe from BLiS, I also ordered smoked and natural steelhead roes. There’s one recipe in the book that makes…
Sarah and I decided this is our favorite one yet, for all of the reasons: it’s beautiful, it’s delicious, and it was fun as hell to make. I picked this…
I’d almost – ALMOST — resigned to myself that if there would be one recipe that I completely failed it, this would be the one. The irony is that this…
A steak cut from a skate wing is poached gently in butter, and placed top a fan of banana slices and haricot vert rounds. It’s topped with brown butter powder….
I continue to vacillate on this project between feeling relentless obligation to keep marching forward with it despite not having much fun some of the time and feeling euphorically hungry for more…
When Sarah and I first started dating, I liked sending her care packages from New Zealand. While collecting things for one package, I came across this interesting little thing…
A pumpkin patch has sprouted up the road from us, complete with garish orange blinking lights and light-up goblin yard decorations, so I figure it’s time I man up…
Sorry for the quiet time here; some travel and work obligations have kept me out of the kitchen more than I’d like. Before I get into this dish, I found…
One of the most intoxicating aspects of being in a kitchen for me (besides, of course, being intoxicated while in the kitchen) is the vast opportunity for creative common-sense problem-solving….
So, I’m obsessed…obsessed…with “dapper” things. The trappings of pure manhood are so captivating and awesome to me; I have a cutthroat razor that I shave with, after lathering up with…
It won’t come as much of a surprise that after that last dish, I was interested in doing something a little simpler. While the tomato dish was unarguably fun to…
Hey guys! Are you ready for a super-verbose and instructional description of one of the most beautiful and challenging dishes in the Alinea cookbook?? No? You’d rather do something more…
Something Sarah and I picked up in New Zealand was the relatively-simple but incredibly-delicious pairing of cheese with honey. I can’t remember exactly what led us to this, but…
My previous odyssey with black truffles, which involved making about 1kg of truffle juice, was put to good use for this one. This relatively-unassuming little ravioli is one of Alinea’s…
Or: How I Learned A Whole Lot About Truffles I think this is the only recipe in the Alinea cookbook to feature chicken. The paltry commonality of the chicken is…
One of the things I love the most about the Bay Area is our proximity to wine country. I’m always excited to take a day trip up to Sonoma or…
My gardening efforts these past few months are starting to come to fruition. A bit stressfully so, actually; I’m not sure how long the window is in which many of…