Category: Cooking

I was at the grocery store today. I discovered, to my surprise and delight, that the grocery store was having a 2-for-1 special on their “Extreme Value Packs” of pork chops, chicken legs/thighs, and beef roasts. So…..I came home with about twenty pork chops and twenty-something chicken legs. But, being easily bored with food I…

I made some awesome chicken tonight. I’m pretty bored with salt-and-pepper chicken breasts, so I made a marinade. 3 boneless chicken breasts 1 1/2 cups Greek yogurt, plain kosher salt (a non-insane amount, like a tablespoon) ground black pepper (a non-insane amount, like 1 1/2 teaspoons) ground cumin (a non-insane amount, like 1/2 a tablespoon)…

A few years ago my friend Alexei gifted me a first edition of the translated Larousse Gastronomique, the French cooking bible by Prosper Montagné. Alexei was a professional chef for a while, as well as working on a fig farm in the South of France, and it embarrassed him that one of his friends (me)…