“How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like Kleenex?” Julia Child. I would have voted for Julia Child for President. Yep, even a drunk Julia sounds pretty good right now. Tweets from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She’d sneak a meat tenderizer into the G7 Summit and bang it on the […]
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Pie Irons and Grilled Cheese- Father’s Day is Coming
I have two great cookbooks for the men in your life. The first is Grilled Cheese and Beer–for those with the finer tastes in life. An erudite tour through the subtle delicacies and variations on one theme–cheesy bread. Written by Kevin VanBlarcum & James Edward Davis, this book has stratified levels of complexity and health-consciousness so […]
Kentucky Hot Brown for the Holidays
Ha-llo from the other si—yide!!! Hooray, it’s the holidays for me now! Just finished my ICU rotation and slept for 12-14 hours (not including the 5 hour post-call nap I took on our friends’ couch during their Star Wars movie marathon party). Still puffy around the eyeballs, but my neurons seem to be all tweeting […]
California BLT (Bacon, Love and Turkey)
I present the following to suggest variations on a theme, which is of course, Thanksgiving. Bacon Lettuce and Turkey, a perfectly acceptable alternative to the traditional BLT when we are in abundance of turkey come Thursday night. BLT could also stand for Big Love Thursday. The Big Love came to visit me and KP last […]
Italian Grinders with Garlic Aioli and Marathon 26
“Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders. Navy beans, navy beans, navy beans.” I have been singing the Lunch Lady Land song for years without ever having known a grinder. Well, I met one. Four, actually. On the way home from Iowa last April, KP and I stopped by People’s Co-op and asked for thin slices […]