Ranking Animals: Cuteness vs. Deliciousness
Sorry, vegetarians. Chicken Cuteness: Baby chicks are adorable and fluffy, sure, but it’s all downhill from there. I mean, when I see a full grown hen or rooster, my first […]
Odds and ends
Unpublished photos from the files. Chicken skin wrapped shrimp bites One of the dishes from my culinary final. You haven’t been truly intimate with a chicken until you’ve deboned it […]
SMELLS LIKE…
Last week I made some rather forgettable jerk chicken that was saved by the addition of this rice and beans recipe from Simply Recipes. I loved the creamy, fragrant rice so […]
MYSTERY MEAL
Niu Rou Mian – egg noodles with beef and Chinese broccoli Last week, after four years in DC, I finally made it out to Eden Center, a mega strip mall for Vietnamese businesses just over the river in Virginia. All the talk I’d head about it being a …
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE
Oxtail in berbere sauce with collard greens and rice This is an adaptation of Marcus Samuelsson’s recipe for doro wott from his pan-African cookbook The Soul of a New Cuisine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen oxtail in Ethiopian dishes before, but it’…