Sometimes homemade pasta is great, really hits the spot, just some noodles and sauce, and you are good to go. And other times, it seems more appropriate to step it up a notch, and go for ravioli or some other stuffed pasta. And in my house, when it is time to make pasta, I always […]
Single Ingredient Potato Latkes
This single ingredient potato latkes recipe is not something that I came up with myself, but rather a recipe my wife forwarded to me from the New York Times cooking section recently. I have already learned a few different latke recipes over the years, pretty hard to go wrong, including my grandmother’s, which I don’t […]
“Fake” Patatas Bravas
I’ve tried patatas bravas at all sorts of restaurants, most in the US, but a few in Spain as well, and I’m sure my experience has been very similar to most… that is to say, a few were exceptional and made me want more, but most were disappointing and made me feel like I could […]
Dutch Oven Pot Roast
2020 has seen me in the kitchen… a lot. Sometimes I’m happy with a long and complicated menu, and other times, I prefer a one pot meal. Like my pot roast, which I like to cook up using my enamel cast iron dutch oven. I don’t have some great story about my pot roast, it’s […]
Overnight Bread With Einkorn Flour
Overnight bread and no-knead breads have been around for a few years, having been made famous in a New York Times article quite awhile ago. But almost every recipe that I have seen that falls into either of those labels use exclusively modern commercial wheat and not the Einkorn flour that I have grown to […]
Sous Vide Glazed Carrots
Writing about sous vide glazed carrots is another one of those vegetable posts that my younger self would never have anticipated writing! During my childhood, teens and even twenties I did about as much as I could to avoid eating vegetables. And now, I’m doing my best to find convenient ways to include nutritious side […]
