A few notes on food and joy
Yesterday, I didn’t photograph the food, because the locusts descended so quickly (and I count myself among the locusts) that it was not even an option. Rib-eye steaks, corn on the cob, and a salad....
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New Traditions in Mom Food
Rick Bayless posted a recipe contest on Twitter this week: a recipe from his new book distilled to 140 characters, like so: “Sear 1.25# bnls chix brst; cool, cube. Brn 1 onion,add 3 grlc,2 poblanos...
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Mom Food posts from the cooking blog
I have a cooking blog where I talk about all the aspects of the food I cook: recession cooking, my on-and-off vegetarianism, the low-iodine diet I sometimes have to do for cancer treatments, etc. Among...
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Follow Friday: Bayless enchiladas & tomato-peach salad
The kid is a persuasive human being. She knows how to make me do things. “Aunt San?” she says. (That’s what she calls me.) “Can we have that awesome chicken like the other night?” How do you say no to...
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Roasted chicken: The Stand
Okay, vegetarians, because I love you (hell, I WAS you), I’m gonna put the not-gross photo first, along with a warning: The rest of the photos in this post are, well, kinda gross, and not just because...
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French Fridays with Dorie: Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup and getting...
I was grumpy. Having successfully fought off an impending migraine all morning, I had left work early, so that I would have time to rest my eyes for a bit, cook the soup (for French Fridays with...
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Weekend cooking: Nana’s Famous Fried Chicken
Of all the things my mother cooked when I was growing up, this may be the one that I end up doing the most explaining about. It’s not like any other fried chicken I’ve ever eaten or heard about, and...
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French Fridays with Dorie: Roast Chicken for Les Paresseux
Photo by Steven Depolo This is not my chicken. My camera was broken the day I made this chicken. I lifted this one from the Creative Commons. Thanks, Steven. My chicken, however, was outstanding,...
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Boyfriend Food: Chicken (or turkey) Salad Croissants
Today is Thanksgiving in the US. While some of you are fussing over a full turkey dinner, James and I are relaxing at home, thankful for our unorthodox plans for the day: Watch the Mythbusters marathon...
View ArticleBarbecue sauce and comfort
Sometimes, the “wrong” way is the comfort-food way. I know better to call last night’s dinner barbecued chicken. It didn’t come anywhere near charcoal or a low, slow, tender-rib-making fire. But it’s...
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Mertie’s Mondays: Coq au Vin
Now you might wonder about me, seeing that lots of the recipes I’m making these days and sharing with you have alcohol as an ingredient. Let me assure you that, while there was a person near and dear...
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Mertie’s Mondays: Chicken Paprikash
This seems to be Chicken Week Chez Hansen and Tan. When I was a youngster, chicken was a once a week-if-that treat, as the days of battery chicken farms were still in the future, and chicken tasted...
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Mom Food Basics: Schmaltz
Because I am my mother’s daughter, very little food goes to waste around here. Bones are made into soup; leftovers are cooked into casseroles or omelets; and chicken skin is hoarded like the golden...
View ArticleWorld Kitchen: Mole Coloradito
I’ll be tweeting along with World Kitchen today, making mole coloradito. We’re encouraged to make anything we want with the mole, so James and I decided on mole pizza, with cotija cheese, green...
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World Kitchen mole coloradito, the pre-post
I will definitely make a real post about this later on, but I wanted to slap up the photos so I could share with my fellow #worldkitchen Twitter friends. This was easy (once I figured out the initially...
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Just another quick one
Okay, one more post today, to put the pizza photos here. More words soon, I promise. Just another quick one is a post from: The Mom Food Project
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Chicken and Rice and Flexibility
Way back in the beginning of this project, I said: As you’re doing this, don’t forget the tag line: Food is not love. Feeding people is love. Food is not love. Feeding people is love. The emotions...
View ArticleMertie’s Mondays: Acadian Stuffing and Turkey Sandwiches
[Note from Serene: I’ve been hanging on to this recipe of Chris’s until the cool weather returned. And now I’m at school and wishing I had stuffing to eat! Thanks, Chris, for another great story, and...
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Dinner in 30: Lazy pot pie
Winter is a funny thing for me. Until I was seven, I lived in places like Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Washington State, where they have serious winter. I remember being so bundled up in snow clothes...
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Chopped liver
To Mom and to me, cooking is like breathing. I know that cooking is a skill that has to be taught, but both of us have been cooking for so long that it feels like we’ve been doing it all our lives. So...
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