Sourcing For You
In an alternate universe much like ours, every chef not only stands in their kitchen cooking every single dish we order, but spends each morning shopping for each piece of food that sits on those...
View ArticlePerfecting Panna Cotta
Panna Cotta is one of those desserts that can be spotted on almost every dessert menu, in every city. After a surge of recent popularity, this once “it” girl has proved her staying power. A chic...
View ArticleToday’s Secret Ingredient…. Heat
I wish with everything in my little cooks heart that Harold McGee wrote for the NY Times every Wednesday. This week we are treated to an introduction to an ingredient every cook uses every day with...
View ArticleThe Flavor of Color
It is a fact that color has a drastic effect on your perception of flavor. The information received from our eyes will lead us to anticipate a flavor based on the color of a food or beverage, and that...
View ArticleSour Cherries
You may remember last summer, when I staged at WD-50. What I didn’t tell you was that I rushed home for cherries. Not just any cherries, Montmorency sour cherries, picked fresh from a tree in my...
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All Rhubarb, All The Time
In other parts of the world, fruit is in season. In places other than Seattle, pastry chefs are working with more than Rhubarb. But no matter how many sunny Seattle weekends drive a burning desire to...
View ArticleButtered Pecans
A component in a dessert at poppy, I have been keeping my pantry well stocked with buttered pecans. It’s harder than one would think, what with the dessert they accompany being ridiculously popular....
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Smoked Fish, My People’s Cured Pork
I won’t go into why it does or doesn’t make sense to follow dietary restrictions created by some dudes thousands of years ago. And even if God created them, I can’t explain why he would care if we ate...
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I now have a vegetable garden. Vegetables coming soon.
I am a big fan of vegetables. Fresh, flavorful, crispy, juicy vegetables can’t be beat. One of my favorite meals of all time was almost entirely composed of vegetables. (The meal was prepared...
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