When I got home from a steak run to Dickson’s Farmstand in the Chelsea Market on March 12, our front doorknob was dripping wet. Creeped out, I rushed in and scrubbed my hands, stowed the meat safely away from Wyl-E The Cat and headed out to deliver the scones our friend/neighbor had requested from Las […]
Six years ago last night I never imagined we would ever have a dinner party again. Thanx to Sleepy Joe, though, America did actually dig out of the hole #trumpandemic had left us in. And now we just have to worry about World War III while entertaining ourselves through the craziness. One guest asked for […]
Today in “grateful for half-cooked meals,” I just turned kittybagged chiles rellenos from Casa Carmen into a riff on Louisville’s famous Hot Brown, itself a weird little dish that came to be a standby as we were in lockdown in #trumpandemic. My former consort had suggested making those open-face sandwiches as a way to use […]
And I keep trying to console myself by thinking of small ways our lives actually improved thanx to #trumpandemic. My former consort and I now walk around our incredible city with hypervision, noticing every tiny bit of awesomeness. Which is huge, but not as much as how we’ve become so obsessed with kittybagging every last […]
After five long years, and easily 250 pounds of butter, I’ve finally called it quits on baking (nearly) every week for a neighborhood church that hands out free meals every Saturday to 300+ people. And I’m doing so even though Covid is far from over. Long story why, but suffice it to say the more […]
Snickerdoodles is the most ridiculous name for the best high-yield, low-effort recipe if you’re baking for a crowd, as in strangers who line up every Saturday for food at a neighborhood church. I use the recipe from my mom’s 1957 Betty Crocker cookbook but switch it up every time: Swapping in a cup of rye […]
Five years after #trumpandemic lockdown, I’m still baking every Thursday for the church near us that really walks the walk. A bunch of neighborhood women each bake a couple of dozen cookies to supplement what St. Michael’s hands out to an ever-growing line of people for Saturday lunch. And this atheist is not embarrassed to […]
IRL friends suggested meeting for pizza and I was only too happy not to cook while getting a chance to vent at how absolutely batshit insane every #shitler nominee is, not least a teevee huckster to run Medicare. “Shall we get a bottle of wine?” “Maybe two.” And we did, not even objecting when the […]
I can’t get motivated to try to sell it, but a piece on how soup is so much easier than pie would be a great tutorial. Meantime, I’ll post my recipe for butternut squash bisque, which I hadn’t made in years and when I did realized was so good I must have stolen it. This […]
We’re giving and going to parties and indulging in crowded museum exhibitions and eating cheek by jowl by cheeks in packed restaurants. But this nightmare ain’t over. Yesterday we had another fabulous meal at Piggyback in the Garment District (after finding Rick Bayless’s Tortazo near Times Square was closed cuz it had no water, and […]
I Tweeted that the search field almost auto-filled when I Googled “Covid symptoms negative test,” but it was only half a joke. Both of us were ailing when we were due to host a dinner party but decided to proceed. My subconscious must have been thinking “capsaicins boost immunity,” though, because I built the menu […]
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