The Many Blessings of Dried Tangerines
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Cooking ideas | 26 Comments »Tangerine salt is one of my true standbys; it has earned a permanent place on my shelf next to the stove, where I place things I use on a daily or near-daily basis. I make tangerine salt in small quantities, ...
Baked Crispy Yogurty Rice
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Cooking ideas, Dishes | 9 Comments »I seem to always have quite a bit of cooked rice around. My standby for leftover cooked rice is a breakaway treatment of fried rice, but something got into me today when I glanced over at the Chamba (the Colombian ...
The All-Sardine Diet!
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Cooking ideas, Dishes | 12 Comments »Little silvery wriggly pure goodness, how I worship thee! But it was a learned worship.I didn't grow up eating sardines, unless you count the supercheap nasty ones they sold in tins in our local crappy supermarket. Blech! No wonder so ...
Ginger Syrup
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Cooking ideas | 21 Comments »I lGinger syrup has become such an integral part of my cooking of late that I'm bumping it up to official status as a breakaway flavor blast, which some of you may recall asthe six salts (matcha, smoked paprika, lavender, ...
Bliss-Inducing Thai Soup
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Cooking ideas, Dishes | 4 Comments »I've been in hypersoup mode lately, probably driven by 1) a nice selection of recently made stocks, and 2) crappy, cold weather. Every few days brings something new, but this one stood far above the rest, so here it is. ...
Happy New Year, Puerco Pibil!
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Dishes | 4 Comments »Happy new year, breakaway cooks! It was a mellow one around here, the first in the new house in San Anselmo, and we were blessed have a handful of close friends around to ring it in. I'll *really* be celebrating ...
