If I purchase any animal protein besides dairy or eggs, it’s usually seafood. We don’t eat a lot of it, but it makes an appearance on our table at least monthly. I always struggle to come up with original recipes, but seafood is especially difficult. I don’t have that much experience with it and I [...]
One of the reasons I first started cooking was my displeasure with what I was bringing to work for lunch. I found myself wanting a real meal midday. Not a sandwich (sandwiches can be real meals, but the ones I was making weren’t), not a prepackaged freezer meal, not a container of yogurt. A real, [...]
If it seems that I haven’t been posting much that I’ve actually cooked recently, there’s a good reason for that. I haven’t been very impressed with a lot of the things I’ve cooked lately. August, as you may recall, was ridiculous. School started a couple weeks ago and, contrary to my expectations (I’m being serious [...]
I’ve loved New England clam chowder for as long as I can remember. When I was in elementary school in New Jersey, my school cafeteria had chowder once a week, alternating between New England and Manhattan varieties. I only bought it on the New England weeks. In case you missed my accent vlog, I’m [...]
Since I don’t cook a lot of meat, I don’t use breading too often. Perhaps that’s why it often seems that when I do use breading, it doesn’t stick well, or brown right, or look good. Or maybe it’s the other way around-breading doesn’t work, so I don’t use it. Nevertheless, haddock was cheap at [...]
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