I was looking for an appetizer to make for a department potluck last week, and happened upon a recipe for salted figs with oregano in Diane Kochiias’s book, Meze. The recipe is embarrassingly simple. You soften dried figs in boiling salted water for five minutes. Drain the figs and place them on a sheet of …
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Apr 05
Pop Quiz
Julian found this item at Costco on Sunday. I took one look at the label and knew something was amiss. Can you find it? The answer will be at the bottom of the next post.
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Mar 27
Epic Lunches
You’re sick of eating your bologna sandwich in front of your cubicle computer. There’s nothing of interest to eat in the cafeteria. There’s only one cure: Escape for an epic lunch with your coworkers. The term epic lunch originated with Julian and his former coworkers at Cornell. From time to time they’d walk to Collegetown …
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Mar 16
More Converts to the Cult
Our office is around the corner from a Vietnamese restaurant called Pho Saigon. As with many family-run Vietnamese restaurants here, what it lacks in ambiance it makes up for in good, cheap food. One of its specialties is my favorite soup, bun bo Hue. I’ve waxed poetic about in in an earlier post. The first two …
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Mar 05
Hot and Sour Soup Worth Slurping
When we order Chinese food, we almost always get hot and sour soup as a starter. It provides a good preview of the restaurant’s quality. A good hot and sour soup will have the tang of vinegar with heat from white or black pepper (not chiles). Unfortunately, many restaurants make the soup hours ahead and …
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Feb 26
Sick Day Doings
The sniffles started around lunchtime on Thursday. By the time I left the office, I was in full-tilt sneeze mode. Our Homeowners’ Association annual meeting was that night, but I sent Julian there solo and was in bed by 8:30. I woke up at 3 on Friday morning, took some decongestant, emailed in sick, and …
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Feb 24
An Unexpected Perk
As mentioned earlier, Julian broke his shoulder two weeks ago. The sole upside to this escapade: We discovered that there’s a Trader Joe’s across the street from his orthopedic surgeon’s office. For the non-cognoscenti, Trader Joe’s is a California-based grocery chain. Its primary claim to fame is “two-buck Chuck” (actually three bucks in Washington), cheap …
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Feb 22
Pantries and their Placement
I grew up in my maternal grandparents’ farmhouse, which dated from the late 1800’s. The hallway leading to the cellar was Grandma’s pantry. It was lined on both sides with shelves for mixers, pickle crocks, and other kitchen equipment. It also had a huge chest freezer. One could have put two intact sides of beef …
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Feb 19
Spring is in the Air
Two items that indicate the groundhog was wrong when he predicted six more weeks of winter this year: There’s a certain aroma you can detect when spring bulbs are sprouting, even before they bloom. It smells like daffodils. I’ve detected this aroma in several places where I know bulbs will appear. No flowers yet, but …
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