Posted by Heather on January 12, 2007 · 1 Comment
I think I’ve more or less nailed chicken and pork (more on my other holy grail: the perfect roast chicken, later), I confited my first duck this winter, and even whipped some chicken livers into delicious submission as pate recently. But beef, or more specifically steak, well, I just couldn’t get it right, at least to my expectations. Since experiments need to be backed up by a hypothesis (sometimes more than one hypothesis, really), I set out to exhaustively research how to cook a steak.
Category Everyday Cooking, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Recipes · Tagged with baked potato, baste, bearnaise, beef, butter, carnivore, Chris Schlesinger, East Coast Grill, filet mignon, grill, How to Cook Meat, Joy of Cooking, meat, omnivore, pan-fry, roast, sauce, steak, tarragon, tenderloin
Posted by Heather on June 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Since renewing this site a little over a week ago, I have been making lists, reviewing my notebooks, and wracking my brain in general trying to figure out what my FIRST POST IN TWO YEARS should be about. Believe me, I have loads to catch up on; some things to look forward to: outrageous multi-course menus from my first hosted Christmas dinner and from this past Easter with old pals (and about to be new parents) Holly and Tom, some warm, slow-cooked stews invented in the beautiful dutch oven my Mom gave me for Christmas this past year, a few Polish traditional dishes, straight from Grandma’s recipes, and a disastrous debacle with a boneless leg of lamb.
Category Feasts + Shindigs, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Recipes, Spring + Summer · Tagged with avocado, backyard, barbeque, Boston, brine, coleslaw, corn, grill, grilled pork tenderloin, Jamaica Plain, napa cabbage, peach chutney, Peach schnapps, pork tenderloin, potato salad, strawberry rhubarb pie, sweet and sour cabbage, tomatoes, watermelon
Posted by Heather on August 19, 2004 · 1 Comment
Now here it is, nearing the end of August and not once have these lips tasted the tang of tartar sauce dressing a crisp, golden-battered piece of haddock. Not once have I sat on a patio, groggy from the sun, sipping a strawberry daiquiri. I only just made it to a beach a week ago, for one quick afternoon at the city beach on Nahant.
What price freedom, you ask? Well, in sacrificing all that is holy about the summertime by working 2 fulltime jobs, the price seems to even out, ironically enough, as the precise cost of my annual tuition.
Category Everyday Cooking, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Recipes, Spring + Summer · Tagged with anise, backporch barbeques, bistro, Bon Appetit, Central Kitchen, Central Squalor, Central Square, cheese plate, chevre, clams, Commercial Street, Coronas, fennel, fried fish, haddock, littlenecks, Mojo's, Nahant, Paris, patio, Pernod, Provincetown, Sancerre., strawberry daiquiri, tartar sauce, tuition, wine bar
Posted by Heather on June 29, 2004 · 1 Comment
Eating becomes a function, a necessary evil, even, as Craigslist, coffee and a multivitamin becomes your breakfast and you aspire to ingest a lunch that maybe, just maybe contains something green- gummy bears notwithstanding- that costs less than $10.
Category Everyday Cooking, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Savory, Vegetables · Tagged with cabbage, dijon, eastern european, flatlined social and romantic life, freelance gig, German, gummy bears, Heffeweissen, lunch under $10, maille, Mustard, napa, salmon, steelhead, sweet and sour cabbage
Posted by Heather on April 21, 2004 · 1 Comment
But frankly, lobster I could generally do without, largely due to an unfortunate incident with a particularly belligerent lobster facing the pot a few years’ back. Though I’ll probably be run out of town for saying this, I’m just not into the “hands-on” picking meat out of the body or scraping that nasty green tamaly stuff or getting all sloppy and buttery.
Category Kitchen Notebook, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Recipes, Spring + Summer · Tagged with B&G Oyster House, Barbara Lynch, battered and fried, Boston, brine, buttery, Cape Cod, Charlie's Kitchen, clam fritters, clam shack, Delux Cafe, Lobster roll, Muscadet, New England, oysters, saltwater, Sancerre., South End
Posted by Heather on April 13, 2004 · 1 Comment
Most disappointingly, pea tendrils were nowhere to be found, but I did get my hands on some ramps, whose appearance in the market is so brief, you’d miss it if you blinked. Ramps, by the way, are delicate baby leeks that back a powerful spring onion kick. The other major substitution was monkfish for sea bass. The hunt for sea bass is what led me to 3 stores, but in the end, it worked out, because I found new treasures at each Whole Foods’. *Note to anyone who lives in Cambridge or the environs: the Prospect Street Whole Foods has little packages of morels! The ramps were discovered at the Fresh Pond store. I love Spring! I assure you that there is a ramps and morels recipe in the works as I write…
Category Feasts + Shindigs, Meat, Fish + Poultry, Recipes, Spring + Summer · Tagged with Cambridge, coconut-curry, Fresh Pond, garlic, ginger, green beans, green curry paste, Harvest Coop, lemongrass, marinade, mirin, Monkfish, morels, Prospect Street, Ramps, red miso, sake, scallops, sesame, shitake, Spring, Trader Joes, Whole Foods
