I'm wildly overdue in sharing news of release of the latest cookbook project I've worked on. Delayed in large part because I was up-to-eyeballs in work on the newer book, Gourmet Game Night, which just went to bed this week. Coming up for air and getting caught up! Memorable Recipes [...]
Just around the corner, on August 23, is one of the best chef-farmer food events in town each year. This will be the 5th annual Incredible Feast, an outstanding chance to visit with farmers you see at the weekly markets around Seattle, in a setting that's not quite as frantic [...]
A quick follow-up to the previous post about my dad's grilled whole salmon recipe. Here's how it turned out for me on Friday night. Such a glorious meal! Before: Despite my notes in the recipe about the benefits of head-on salmon, [...]
Boy, I just experienced something of a flood. And it's not from the Seattle rain that fell this morning after a near-month dry spell. I had determined to honor my dad by sharing with you his family-famous recipe for grilled whole salmon. "I'll need a few photos to accompany this," [...]
I almost forgot that I'd contributed recipes to the June issue of Cooking Light. Some magazines, particularly the larger nationals like CL, have really long lead times for the articles. I'd turned those recipes in well over a year ago and moved on to many other things in the meantime. [...]
I've had a Blondie comic strip tacked just above my desk for a while now. In it, Dagwood's playing poker with his pals, shuffling the cards only to have them all fly out of his hands with a P-R-R-R-T (one of those clever comic sound effects). The others decide that Dagwood's [...]
Oh, to have been in New York City these past few days, where the culinary world has gathered for the annual James Beard Awards. I was there at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center last year for the glitzy festivities--complete with red carpet interviews and celebrity sightings. But couldn't swing [...]
It all started with a simple hankering I had on the way home one afternoon a month or so ago. In the corner of the parking lot of my local grocery is a Tully's. Some handful of years ago they started selling (really quite tasty) soft-serve ice cream, in coffee and vanilla, [...]
Now that it's actually springtime in Seattle (at least for another day or so), it's hard to remember having been in the snow up in Whistler early last month. But watching a rerun of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations show on Vancouver a few days ago brought back to mind my [...]
This is a simple little technique that I picked up somewhere in the course of my culinary development a couple of decades ago. I have a feeling it morphed out of having had that peler à vif technique drummed into us at cooking school (a technique I use pretty often, as [...]