My typical weekly meal plans are a combination of staple dishes during the week and more creative food during the weekend, and Tuesdays are nearly always reserved for chicken thighs. When we first moved down to Baltimore, I bought boneless thighs as they were always readily available compared to bone-in thighs, but a couple of…
Heirloom tomatoes and anchovy aioli from Rebekah Peppler’s Le Sud.
Of my new cookbook acquisitions from 2024, the two that I’ve turned to the most this year have been Meryl Feinstein’s Pasta Every Day and Rebekah Peppler’s Le Sud. I’ll write more about the former in another post, but rest assured it’s become a favorite of mine because it gets me thinking a little more…
Cold Idiazabal cheese and sauteed mushroom soup from José Andrés’s Made in Spain.
After my first trip to Barcelona, I was hit with a pretty serious case of the post-vacation blues. (Technically, the post-vacation blues started on the early-morning train ride heading toward El Prat airport, but does that really matter?) It didn’t help much that the weather was cold, grey, and rainy for the first few days…
A quick note about this blog and generative AI.
A few months ago, while doing some housekeeping on the backend of this blog, I noticed some link-back requests from food blogs that looked like they were made using generative AI. One blog was surprisingly upfront about this on their About page, as the “author” calls themselves a “virtual chef”, but the others were so…
The Neon 112, a cocktail inspired by South Philly’s Palizzi Social Club.
Last summer, I had the chance to dine at one of the hardest places to get a table in Philadelphia: Palizzi Social Club. A members-only club/restaurant that started life as one of many Italian social clubs that you could find all over the Philadelphia area, Palizzi blew up a few years before the pandemic when…
Panini-grilled coconut-lemongrass chicken thighs, inspired by a recent trip to paradise.
Back in early January, M and I made our way to Kauai as he had a work trip and we had a promotional companion pass that meant that at least half of my plane fare would only cost a little less than $12. The island itself is absolutely gorgeous and more than lives up to…
Scallop ceviche from Eric Ripert’s Seafood Simple.
Scallops are definitely a sometimes food for me because they are expensive and I hate the idea of messing them up and wasting both them and my money because I seared them for too long or similar. Fortunately, Eric Ripert does not let me down with his cookbooks, and his most recent book–Seafood Simple–lives up…
Parsnip-morel mushroom soup as inspired by Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert’s cookbook Does This Taste Funny?
My late night television diet mainly consists of watching Stephen Colbert’s monologues and Seth Meyers’s A Closer Look segments while I row in the mornings and enjoying the latest episode of Last Week Tonight while eating tacos on Monday evenings. Rowing while watching the former two allows me to channel the rage, fear, anxiety, and…
Noting 2025 with a Milano-Torino and some thoughts.
My posting habits haven’t been as consistent in the last few months, despite doing a lot of cooking when I’m home, and one of the reasons for this was that the election really took a lot out of me mentally. The number of posts I have tried to write both before and in the wake…
An Aperol-grapefruit-gin milk punch for your holiday celebrations.
It’s the time of year where I love making milk punches to bring to family celebrations; since we generally spend so much time cooking when I’m at my in-laws’ home, having a low-octane cocktail to sip on through the day helps keep things relaxed without getting crazy. I was really pleased with my recreation of…
The Manhattan [food] Project 