The election has cast a certain pall over the last month. Apparently, this is who we are. I felt like I needed to mention this because, compared to the very scary four years to come, it feels very decadent for me to be worrying about pizza dough....
This has been a month of two halves. I spent most of the second half of September meandering around the UK and France with a very brief jump across the Swiss border....
It’s been a bit of a lighter month cooking at home for various reasons, but that hasn’t completely stopped my various experimentation. I returned to the great chipotle chicken recipe I got from the Ottolenghi team a few weeks ago....
While our food culture here in the United States still hasn’t quite caught up with other places I’ve visited, I’m lucky enough to have at least a little exposure to seasonal products....
Summer has begun to really assert itself, and so my food-related projects shift with it. Warm weather always makes me want tacos, which feel slightly weird to make when it’s freezing outside....
Every year I feel like I should keep a log of the average daily temperature. As soon as I blink, the weather goes from so cold I’d freeze without wearing a coat to so warm I have to turn on the air conditioning....
The weather finally decided to change into something truly springlike in the middle of April. While they weren’t exactly in season, I had a real hankering for haricots verts. It was a great opportunity to make a batch of garlic-forward toum....
Spring has arrived in its usual noncommittal way over the last few weeks. It’s been cold and wet, and sometimes difficult to motivate myself in food as in other areas....
Longtime readers may recall that the genesis for this whole project was the weekly newsletter that I started in early 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 confinements. I used a service called TinyLetter to write and mail that out, and, much to my chagrin, they’ve decided to shut TinyLetter down....
After a bit of a wacky month, I’m trying to get this back on schedule, so this month’s notes will be a little sparer than usual. It hasn’t been that long!...