Eating European Tomatoes with The Tomato Sisters
Disclaimer: I’ve recently partnered with The Greatest Tomatoes from Europe, working to publicize their canned tomato products. I am not being paid for my participation, aside from some wonderful canned tomato products from Europe–and some Italian pasta. Any views posted are strictly my own. It’s 8:41 am. I am…
About Bitter Melon
To this day, the post for bitter melon curry remains one of my most popular. Every time I post a picture of bitter melon on Instagram, people ask about it. So I thought I’d discuss it a bit more here. Bitter melon is a member of the gourd family. Jennifer…
Velvet Pork Pie
As the new year begins with its resolutions to diet, go vegan, or otherwise engage in punishing cleanses, the IK brings you meatloaf, Chinese style. Meatloaf, aka velvet pork pie, isn’t very exciting, but sometimes not very exciting is good. I mean, I don’t know about you, but around here,…
Stir-fried Rice Cakes with Pork
As lunatics in the wider world wielded guns and mailed pipe bombs, your hostess was busy dealing with crooks and idiots. It’s been that kind of few weeks. Or maybe that kind of two years. (Not indicative of above.) — Stir-Fried Rice Cakes with Pork comes, in part, from Georgia…
Mu-Shu Pork
When I was a child, I knew a woman who collected penguin figurines. When the local fish place went out of business, she acquired their namesake, a ten-foot tall penguin, and had it installed in her yard. The interior of her home was equally penguin (penguinic? penguinesque?): the garbage…
Spicy Cold Chinese Noodles
More properly referred to as Spicy And Numbing Cold Noodles, Spicy Chinese Noodles hail China’s Sichuan Province, a place known for hot, muggy summers and the ingestion of chile-laden foods to counter said wet heat. I’ve prepared Spicy Cold Chinese Noodles with corn, wax beans, red peppers, chile peppers, fresh…
Dungeness Crab
Forbidden fish and seafood include… all shellfish and crustacea.. The Askenazim have been much stricter in their practice of kashrut, whereas the Sephardim, even when deeply religious, are known to have been more tolerant and easygoing. Claudia Roden, The Book Of Jewish Food Lobsters are essentially big fucking bugs; they’re…
Chinese Takeout Noodles
Breezy little blog posts are increasingly impossible. This week gave us Chester Bennington’s death, the migrant tragedy in the Texas Walmart lot, Venezuela, Yemen, and Syria. Atop all this, a gibbering idiot is running amok in the White House. In this context, Chinese Takeout Noodles are beyond trivial. Then again,…
Cardamom Hazelnut Cakes
The quest to make breakfast appealing for John, no kind of morning person, continues. Expecting non-breakfasters to become lovers of the full English is unrealistic at best. Kind of like expecting people to voluntarily surrender their health care. The trick to an appealing John breakfast is simple, portable food: a muffin,…
Caregiver’s Noodles
You’re wondering what these are. These thigmajigs, scmetchiks, whaddayacallits, are a crucial part of a wheelchair user’s day–that is, if the wheelchair user has a “swing-away” style footrest on his chair. The above objects are called endcaps. Their job is to hold wheelchair footrests in place while allowing them to…
