Two Chickens, Many Options
Hot chicken, cold chicken, gravy and pâté add up to plenty of meals to improvise later. Here’s how I do it.
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Drinking Chocolate
In Spain, it’s not hot chocolate — it’s drinking chocolate. Encountering this sort of blew my mind, and so my quest began. The beverage I tasted in a Spanish streetside café was, as I understood it, a coffee alternative, not …
Daily Bread: How to Bake with Sourdough
How do you bake a loaf of bread using the sourdough starter you made? Well let me tell you. I named this recipe my “daily bread,” as in “give us this day,” because it’s very basic and very good. It’s …
How to Eat Fried Caterpillars
After watching Bear Grylls do it, King Sturdy wanted to eat a caterpillar.
Cast Iron Pans: How to Clean ‘Em
Remember all those things people like to say about cast iron pans? About how all you ever have to do to clean them is wipe them out, and also about how they’re impossible to clean? Let’s set the record straight. For When Your Pan …
Cast Iron Pans: The Truth about Seasoning (and How to Do It)
So you bought yourself a cast iron pan. And you want to cook with it. And you’re scared of the mess. Well, don’t fry up your over-easy eggs just yet. You’re not ready. First you have to season your pan — but …
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Cast Iron Pans: Four Rules We’ve All Heard, Which Just Aren’t True
At one time, I shared the not-uncommon nervousness that many feel for cast iron. Those inclined to look nervously upon the pan are they, I believe, who find the idea appealing, yet have serious questions surrounding (a) the promise of failure and (b) the impracticality of cleaning the damn thing. All …
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Your Sourdough Starter: What Kind of Flour?
A while back, I was reading an online bulletin where people were discussing the pros and cons of using different types of flour in their sourdough starter. Someone was agonizing because they realized the starter they just brought home was …
How to Make a Sourdough Starter
I’ve never been a fan of sourdough. Until I found out that what’s called “sourdough” isn’t, in fact. When I learned what real sourdough is, I became a fan right away. The truth is, in almost every case, what’s packaged …
My Take on the Kitchen Arts
There are a lot of websites about cooking out there. I’m not doing what they’re doing — the comprehensive recipe bank, the exotic tour through culinary traditions — I couldn’t create that kind of thing if I tried and anyway …