Sarah and I have, for the past several weeks, been taking a woodworking class at The Crucible in Oakland. I absolutely love our teacher, Ben, who is incredibly meticulous and…
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Man, it feels good to be making stuff again. This is another dish from the book I’ve been eyeballing since day 1 with it; it’s so pretty, and has that…
I had halfway hoped to start back here with a rhubarb dish, but it’s way, way too complicated to pull off just yet. My plan B was a raspberry dish,…
Here I am! Sorry, this blog has remained inactive in inverse proportion to the activity involved in getting settled into the Bay Area. You might suspect that starting up a…
Last week, Sarah and I took a trip out to San Francisco to scout out some areas we might want to live in and see if we could find an…
While leaning against the enormous glass windows of the H+M on Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue with my brother-in-law Aaron, waiting for my sisters to try on God knows what inside,…
This is the story of how I got to do something totally, totally awesome. Shortly after I wrote a recent post about moving to the US, Nick Kokonas emailed me…
So. Bittersweetly, this will be the last dish I make from New Zealand, at least for a while. I’d like to think this is appropriate, because it’s also been the…
A 5.5-hour full tasting dinner at Alinea, including wine pairings, is enough to blur even the best memory retention. It’s a dizzying surfeit of tricks and oddities and wine. When…
All right guys, you know all those presuppositions you have about lavender pudding being for grannies? Well strap on your Depends, because you’re gonna want to get on board with…
“Oh my God, I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Phaedra and Lesleigh are buying waffle makings in front of me in line. I can’t say how much I love this…
After noting in my last post that I’m trying to pay more mind to the seasons as laid out in this book, I promptly contradicted myself and made this dish,…
So this dish is pretty much awesome. I’m finding that I’ve slowed down on the haphazard jumping around through this book, and am trying to pay more regard to the…
Manchego Cheese, the superstar ingredient of this dish, hails from Spain. Or, at least, that’s what wikipedia tells me. I’m a bit ignorant when it comes to cheeses, but I’m…
Happy holidays, people who love pretty and delicious things! For my Christmas, my landlord booted me out of our apartment (to be fair, he claims he lost his job and…
While I’m still storing up ingredients and time for some larger-scale cooking projects, I thought this one might be a good one to fill a weekend packed with Christmas shopping…