Bring on The Corned Beef

That was a good day . . .
Do you like kosher pickles? Well, I do. Bubbies, and Ba-Tampte are my two favorite brands among those that are available just about anywhere. And they make more than just Kosher dills, Bubbies also makes bread-and butter pickles and pickled green tomatoes, while Ba-Tampte includes sauerkraut, [...]

Liquid Gold

I refer to stock. Also known as broth. I sometimes wonder what the difference between the two is. I tend to think of broth as a lighter, less flavorful stock. Something made with less meat to water, and cooked briefly, rather than simmered for hours. This may or may not be accurate, but that’s how [...]

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater . . .

. . . had a wife and couldn’t keep her. So, he ate her.
That is how my brother recited the poem as a child. And they say I am the warped one.
Anyway.
I completely revamped this post. I had a long–as in seven paragraphs long- and you know I am not exaggerating–introduction about me [...]

Garlic Soup

Garlic is one of those foods that has been with us since the dawn of time, but is rediscovered frequently by cooks looking to do something different. Who doesn’t remember the late 1980s and early 1990s when roasted garlic started appearing everywhere- it was on restaurants menus, packed in jars with olive oil, and, unfortunately, [...]

Maize Daze

Corn.
I have said in the past, that corn-on-the-cob is not one of my favorite things. This was not always the case. I well remember the childhoods of my summer, which included ears of corn bathed in butter and ridiculously-generous grindings of black pepper- we were sophisticated, using only freshly-ground pepper in the 1970s. That corn [...]