We’re at Rehoboth Beach, DE for the weekend, with a bunch of friends in a shared house. We do this every fall — after the season, it is calmer and you can really enjoy the town. We rent a house together, and for the past few years, we have cooked […]
It’s summer time in DC, and the farmer’s markets are banging. We were reminded while on our recent France trip that gazpacho = summer. So I made some. Just go to this link and watch Jose Andres make his gazpacho, from his wife Tichi’s recipe. He says it is the […]
Just spent 10 days in France, which was lovely. Most of it was in Brittany on the west coast — gorgeous rolling hills, absolutely charming walled midieval cities, and great train service that whooshed us everywhere fast, comfortably, and on time. Wowza. Food: excellent. Buckwheat crepes. Delicious entrecote of beef. […]
We have been traveling a good bit recently, disrupting my already chaotic routine. Low posting as a result. When we got back from a trip to Rome (it was lovely and good to be back there after a three-year hiatus), we ordered Chinese, which is our traditional back-from-a-trip meal. I […]
Padma Lakshmi. 2025. Padma’s All American: A Cookbook. Knopf. We watched Padma’s amazing show Taste the Nation last year, and truly enjoyed the trip she took us on around the country, meeting various communities and hearing their stories, talking about food, and cooking their traditional recipes with them. This cookbook […]
Chicken salad is a staple for sandwiches, brunch, and the like. Sometimes it is pretty boring though! Saw a version of this Venezuelan chicken salad on a cooking show and started salivating. That means research and build a recipe so I can make this at home. Arepas are cousins to […]
When you cook a big pot of red beans, you aren’t done till you serve up a bunch of rice. Here’s how to do that….
The very first thing that comes to mind when it’s a grey, rainy day — or a snowy mess of a day — is a big pot of red beans and rice. I have a ridiculous pantry, so I have the ingredients for this dish on hand pretty much all […]
The big storm requires us to eat good food so we keep up our strength and our spirits. That means comfort food to me. One of our favorite dishes reminds Chris of his summers excavating a Roman cemetery and a circus (racecourse) in Carthage, now a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia. […]
The ultimate comfort meal is a simple roast chicken. When I first saw the original version of this recipe in Santa Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, I was terrified: never having tried to roast a whole bird, this looked intimidating. Then I cooked it. It was very easy, […]