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.
Category: Recipes
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 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 …
Garlic, Pickled
If you’re wondering why anyone would ferment garlic, let me just say a toddler will pop five in a row and ask for more. “Garlic? Garlic?! Yesss?!!” Ingredients 10 heads garlic 32 oz. glass jar with lid (or similar) 1 …
Baked Cod
Cod is cheap. That’s the first thing it has going for it. Second, when baked with lemon, butter and garlic, it’s really, really good. Ingredients 3 cod fillets 2 oz. butter (half a stick) 2 tsp. lemon juice 6 cloves garlic, …
French Toast
When I lived in France, I asked my employers what the French is for French toast. Not “us toast,” surely. Turns out they call it le pain perdu: the lost bread. Baguettes are a staple in French kitchens. People bring …