My buddy Matt and I cooked up some dinner for a party this past weekend, which I was calling my “Spring Meal”. The focus was to complete more recipes from Chez Panisse Vegetables, but to also use a few elements from the new cookbook Ideas In Food. Featured vegetables were asparagus, artichokes (which we completely screwed up [...]
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Katie and I just had a quick trip to NYC over the weekend, as could be surmised from my gloating twitter stream the last few days. We went for a concert – LCD Soundsystem, their last show ever, a crazy 3.5 hour marathon that I’m so glad I saw. We left at 1AM, the picture above [...]
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The last six months I’ve begun to dabble in simple cured meats like the pancetta pictured above. The local blog Cured Meats (thanks Jason) has been my main resource for all the how-to, but really these are stupid easy once you understand the basics. Below is the pork belly going in the cure. Salt, pepper, [...]
