My favorite buttermilk pancakes are tall, fluffy, buttery show-offs. I make them on the weekend because my mom always made pancakes on the weekend and it feels as weekend-y as cake for breakfast should. But does Thursday morning deserve a pancake, just for being Thursday? I realized recently that a …
Read More »Shrimp Pad Thai Salad
posted by Jaden on January 22, 2018 This Pad Thai Salad recipe features a healthy salad, fit as a main course. This recipe is courtesy of celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s new cookbook Bobby Flay Fit: 200 Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle. Learn how to make a spicy, nutty salad dressing Instead …
Read More »sheet pan meatballs with crispy turmeric chickpeas
In October of last year, I made one of the best, and prettiest, dinners I’d had all year and couldn’t wait to tell you about them. Then I got a *little* (29 flights and 24 cities in 7 weeks) busy and somehow (somehow!) they — along with the Dutch apple …
Read More »boulevardier
According to my calendar, on December 19th I ostensibly signed special ordered books at The Strand and then took my two year-old to a holiday party, but I know the truth, which is that I was actually reading this hilarious piece on Bon Appetit from Alex Delany in which he …
Read More »Firecracker Shrimp Recipe – only 3 ingredients!
posted by Jaden on January 10, 2018 Firecracker Shrimp Recipe is a 3-ingredient recipe with a Mango Ginger Dipping Sauce (ready in 3 minutes). This is a festive way to celebrate Chinese New Year 2018 on February 16th. The shrimp signifies happiness, and the “firecracker” scares away bad luck and …
Read More »Chinese Broccoli with Garlicky Ginger Miso
posted by Jaden on January 9, 2018 In this recipe for Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan), you’ll learn: Old Chinese broccoli can be very bitter and stringy. Learn how to choose fresh Chinese broccoli. How to cook thick Chinese broccoli stems without over-cooking the delicate leaves. How to make a savory …
Read More »split pea soup
Here are a few things I know to be true: Split pea soup is never going to win the winter soup Olympics. Its signature hue of mushy pea green will never be prized as fashionable by anyone but the unfashionable likes of me. If you know people who stand up …
Read More »Shrimp Teriyaki Stir Fry Recipe
posted by Jaden on January 1, 2018 This Shrimp Teriyaki Stir Fry Recipe features: 15 minute simple shrimp teriyaki stir fry recipe Learn how to stir fry shrimp so that it is caramelized on the outside, and perfectly cooked on the inside How to make a teriyaki stir fry sauce …
Read More »salted butter chocolate chunk shortbread
Can there be a cookie of the year? Sure, it’s possible that I spend too much time consuming food media, the takes, the Tweets, the Instagram Stories. But if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have seen Alison Roman’s Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies virtually everywhere, weakening my resistance to …
Read More »dutch apple pie
Before I abandoned you (online) to spend time with you (in person) the better part of the last two months, leading to premature but rightly deserved obituaries*, I spend about half of the fall I was in town for obsessed with Dutch apple pie, and a significant amount of that …
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