If you need a Mexican Hangover Cure RIGHT NOW skip down to the recipe. You have my sympathies. Vaya con Dios. May you feel no more pain, brothers and sisters. Everyone else is welcome to read on. Our Christmas Eve meal isn’t really a sit-down affair–we put everything on the coffee table in the living …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Lemon-Bay Scones with Currants
On Christmas morning we usually have something special. This year Jody decided on scones, Lemon-Bay Scones with Currants. Which meant that this past week she’s been running a bake-a-thon in quest of the perfect scone. I work at home, usually alone, and the availability of incredible treats can make the atmosphere just a little too …
Is That a Fig and Walnut Salami? Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Fig and Walnut Salami? You’re joking, right? Of course we’re joking, we’re always joking. Just not about the salami. When Jody and I make edible gifts we like to prepare something a little offbeat. For most of the year Italians, like Americans, equate salami with oblongs of cured meat, but come the holidays Americans and …
Peter Piper Under Pressure – Stuffed Peppers with Porcini and Aged Gouda
This is not a post about stuffed peppers cooked in a pressure cooker. This week’s recipe of Stuffed Peppers with Porcini and Aged Gouda is prepared the conventional way–in the oven. Dried porcini and their deeply infused soaking liquid meet regular mushrooms (we used cremini), spinach, tomatoes, brown rice and smoky, buttery aged Gouda in …
Parnsip Pototato Pancakes with Horseradish Sauce
It’s been a decade since we cooked or ate Thanksgiving dinner at home. Rialto is open, and Jody could hardly ask her staff to work if she weren’t willing to shoulder up to the hot line beside them. On Thanksgiving evening we did what we always do–we had dinner at the very end of service …
The Garum Factory 