Food, cooking, eating
I thought it was a passing crush, nothing more than a blush of affection based in giddiness around our departure from Capitol Hill for the broader reflective light of West Seattle. But as time has passed and I’ve visited over and over, my feelings have deepened and now, there is no denying it. Bakery Nouveau, …
The thing about being an adventurous cook is that sometimes you miss the mark. You read a recipe and it sounds okay, and you trust it because cookbooks have a certain amount of credibility to them. I should know better, after the *** efffing ***** book that I helped out as a test chef on: …
My head still thinks we’re in Hawaii even while my heart is turning to the next adventure, Vietnam. My body, though, knows the hard cold facts: We’re in torrential rainy Seattle. Our first day back we did two things: Went to Trader Joe’s to get some groceries and stopped for pho, the soup that soothes …
How I love to have company on Fish Wednesday! If that company happens to be my absent much too long husband, well, welcome home and let’s have a bit of a feast to celebrate, shall we? I asked J. how long it had been since he’d had a home cooked meal – not so long …
When you really devote yourself to eating sustainable seafood, you end up in some tight corners. Case in point: I was feeling pretty okay as I tossed the Canadian Rockfish fillet in my basket, but when I got home and looked up the fish on my favorite source, I realized it was, again, not that …
I have, sitting on my hard drive, a terrific interview with the writer behind the Ocean Friendly Seafood cookbook. Good stuff in there, I tell you what, about his conversion on the road to fish Damascus via Orange Roughy. (Trust me, this will all make sense at some point.) But I’m still down with the …