After complaining a few posts ago about the complicated recipes involving blueberries in a recent L.A. Times article, I felt badly about dismissing the recipes. After all, isn't that what this blog is supposed to be about? Trying new things, scouting out ingredients, figuring out whether you should clip and save a recipe forever, or…

Months ago, I bought a can of pinhead oatmeal. Pinhead oats are the Scottish name for steel-cut oats, which come from Ireland. I was going through a hot cereal phase during what seemed like an everlasting winter and had gotten sick of hot oat bran cereal (although with Wyman’s frozen wild blueberries and a splash…

At the dinner party I had last weekend, our menu started with Fresh Herbed Ricotta, served with slices of Amy's peasant bread. Buonitalia Italian Imports, in Chelsea Market, has the only ricotta worth buying in New York. While even this ricotta romana can't hold a candle to the stuff found in Italian caseifici, it certainly…

The September 5th issue of The New Yorker is an absolute pleasure to read. Usually, I get through the magazine pretty quickly – I have no problem easily skipping over articles that don’t captivate me within the first page, and the articles that do catch my attention, well, I read through those quickly, too. Just…

I haven’t been able to post for a while – I went out of town this past weekend for a few days along the Hudson River Valley. Lots of delicious cooking and eating occurred, but I didn’t document a single dish. Back in the saddle now! Although this post will take a quick divergence from…

In the L.A. Times yesterday, Susan La Tempa wrote an article about picnic food – including three recipes for pickled vegetables, fig pate and a cheese focaccia. I wanted to try something that I had (almost) all the ingredients for and so I chose the focaccia recipe. It calls for what seemed to be to…

Yet another foodblog, the readers sigh resignedly. With thousands of blogs being added to the web daily, it’s hard to feel that one’s own endeavor will have a chance to stand out. Nevertheless, I’ve decided to jump into the fray with my own take on food and blogging. Every week I look forward to Wednesday’s…