Chicken thigh recipes, tips, tricks, and techniques for home cooks
You can be easily forgiven if you’re not familiar with sorrel. It’s not a vegetable we see much of here in the states. You may have seen the red-veined variety. It’s often used as garnish on fancy plates – especially the tiny leaves. But I’m talking about garden sorrel, or […]
Normally I wait until the light is just right to photograph dishes in my tiny kitchen studio – and usually because I’m making dinner – that’s in the afternoon. Today though, the light was just so nice that I shot this one in the full sun. It’s a different look. […]
It’s cold and raining here today. It’s been cold and raining a lot recently. When it’s cold and raining I crave a certain kind of comfort food, the kind that sticks to your ribs, that’s satisfying in almost a visceral way. You have eaten. You know you have eaten. You […]
Lemon Pepper is a classic combination. That’s perhaps because you can almost pretend it’s spicy, while not scaring off your friends, neighbors or family who are scared of spicy. Call it spicy, with a little s. The thing is, black pepper can be aggressively spicy when it’s used raw, or […]
My mother used to serve us a dish she simply called “Greek Stew” – a tomato rich braised beef with a touch of ground cinnamon. Like Cincinnati’s “greek chili” the dish she served us’s origins may or may not actually be Greek. It was essentially Kapama, a slow cooked preparation […]
One of the more interesting aspects of American Chinese cuisine is that like the cuisines that shaped influenced it – China’s diverse fabric of techniques, ingredients, and traditions – it has developed its own regional specialties. New England has its Chop Suey. The upper Midwest has – of all things […]
I developed this recipe for my other food project “The Weekly Menu” after coming back from the farmers market with a. pile of delicious, sort of rare, and very seasonal ramps. If you’re not from a swath of states bordering the Appalachian Mountains (or you’re not a huge food nerd) […]
Duck a l’Orange is fancy. Really fancy. Like, classy old movie, white tablecloth restaurant, waiter with a fake French accent, and Humphrey Bogart yelling “Garcon!” fancy. Chicken a l’Orange is also fancy. Just not quite as fancy. Maybe more like a nice evening at home with candles left from last […]
I’ll be honest. This recipe came about when I was struggling to figure out what to make for dinner. I scrounged in the fridge and cooked with what I had. But I accidentally came up with something that mimics flavors used in Europe before the European conquest of the Americas. […]
Nashville hot chicken has been all the rage for a few years now, popping up on everything from fast food menu boards to perfectly plated fine dining versions. That’s both because it feels like a new discovery (it’s not – we just weren’t paying attention to the Black food pioneers […]