Supermeow!

A couple months ago or so, I went to my mom’s house where she made something rather fantastic for dinner. She told me that she’d been making such a thing for herself and my father a lot recently. She took sweet and hot Italian sausage and cooked them with garlic, sliced white onions, strips of…  Continued »

[flickr]photo:4282342442(medium)[/flickr] We had some hamburger cutlet curry last night, making use of the last of the curry I cooked earlier in the week. As often happens, we had a bunch of rice left over, so I whipped up some rice balls, aka onigiri, aka samgak kimbap, using one of Maangchi’s fantastic recipes. Maangchi has yet…  Continued »

[flickr]set:72157623212478648[/flickr] My six degrees of separation story about Todd English is that my dad helped him get building permits to open up Olives (and later, Figs) in Charlestown, MA in the 1980s. I’d never actually eaten at his restaurant until I went there for my BFF Prairie’s 24th birthday in 2000. I don’t remember everything…  Continued »

Tonight, I made pad thai using a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. In my opinion, if you’re going to pay for a website membership as a person who enjoys cooking, pay for this one. It’s got all the recipes and articles you’d find in the magazine but in handy web format. Anyhow, here’s the result: [flickr]photo:4273318892[large][/flickr]…  Continued »

My grandmother used to make these fantastic rolled crepes called nalysnyky in Ukrainian. The recipe that my grandmother made (which she got from my great-grandmother who allegedly worked in the kitchen of some Russian nobleman) is apparently something of an oddity, at least it was an oddity among the people at my mom’s church growing…  Continued »