-
So Many Different Ways to Relish Mustard
Some people just love mustard, and I’m one of them. My earliest recollection was smearing some mustard (and only mustard) on my hamburgers. Now, I can’t imagine cooking without it. Adding mustard to sauces, salads, soups, stews, and so much…
-
Trending Now: Korean Barbecue
The arrival of 70-degree temperatures here in New England means that it’s outdoor cooking season. Over the next few months, I’ll be grilling burgers, sausages, steaks, kebabs, and, of course, smoked pork butts, ribs, fish, and brisket. But how about…
-
Fresh Ideas for Early Spring Vegetables
After months of dining on stews, braises, roasts, and other rib-sticking meals with potatoes, parsnips, and winter squash, the arrival of spring heralds a whole new crop of fresh vegetables. Here in New England, in addition to the early-spring salad…
-
Garlic: The Magic Ingredient
After writing more than 200 blogs, you’d think I would already have featured this key constituent. Garlic is among the most important ingredients in most cuisines around the world. And besides, I love it. Good and evil Like many things…
-
Crunchy, Chewy, Creamy, Flaky, Crispy, Tender
When I think about my favorite sandwich, a breaded pork tenderloin, what comes to mind is a complex taste sensation. As I bite into it, first, there’s the fresh bun, then the crunch of the crust of the fried pork…
-
Down in Jamaica
Now that the days are getting warmer, we can start to think about outdoor grilling. One of the favorite grill recipes in this house is Jamaican jerk. We served our own homemade jerk chicken at our wedding (although we had…
-
Pulling Up Free Veggies
When I was growing up on the farm, weeds were the enemy. A noxious-weed commissioner would regularly patrol the area, perusing fields to make sure that none of those offending weeds were going to seed and multiplying. Offending farmers were…
-
Eat Your Spinach!
One vegetable that seldom appeared on our family menu when I was growing up in the 1950s was spinach. Fresh spinach was not on the shelves in the local supermarkets, and we didn’t grow it. We could buy canned spinach,…
-
How to Eat Like an Italian
Do a Google search for “easy recipe ideas,” and you’ll come up with a host of interesting menu suggestions, many of them of Italian origin or character. I find the same Italian presence daily in the various recipes I find…
-
Welcome to the Club Sandwich
When my daughter was a teenager, we had a Saturday ritual: lunch at the local diner. Invariably, she would order a chicken club sandwich. It reached a point where the waitress wouldn’t bother to ask her what she wanted; just…
