Last Saturday my mom and I picked up two nice pieces of leg of lamb at the farmers market. My mom had wanted a butterflied leg, but they only had them with the bone in. None of the pieces they had were big enough, so we got two. Despite my complete lack of butchering [...]
This is the perfect chocolate cake. It’s moist and dense and not too rich or too sweet. There are no gimmicks involved. It’s just chocolate cake. It’s called Chocolate Dump-it Cake, a name which refers to how non-fussy the recipe is. There is no beating, creaming, or folding involved. Everything is just quickly whisked together [...]
When I saw the asparagus at the farmers market this week I knew it was time to make one of my favorite spring dinners. This is one of my mom’s recipes. Actually I think it started out as just fettuccine and asparagus, but then all of a sudden one night it had salmon in [...]
One of the added bonuses of writing a cooking blog is that your relatives invite you over for dinner more often. Sunday afternoon some friends and I got lost in Corona Park and I nearly missed dinner, caught and cooked by my brother-in-law Paul.
As spring approaches, Striped Bass make their annual migration north along the [...]
Last Saturday I was cleaning up my kitchen when I spotted a jar of dried chickpeas. I absentmindedly threw some in a pot to soak without any kind of plan in mind as to what I would do about them. I sort of forgot about them until Sunday, when I noticed the pot still sitting [...]
