Some days, everything goes right: the sun is shining, you can ride your bike around town carefree after a winter full of slow ice-patch vigilance, you’ve just eaten a fine lunch and there’s nothing in particular to do that afternoon. You roll into your favorite butcher shop – just to say hello – and suddenly […]
No comments | Blood Sausage, chickpeas, Clancey's, Madrid, Spanish
There are plenty of fast foods that you can make better at home: this burger will beat anything that ever crawled out from under any golden arches, or, if Taco Bell is your thing, you can easily beat the experience at home by cooking up a bowl of oatmeal and throwing it in a tortilla. […]
4 comments | chickpeas, Egypt, Lentils, middle east, Pasta, Rice, Starch, vegan, vegetarian
Cookbooks have a life cycle: when a book is new, it’s exciting, it might get cover to cover, torn bits of paper sprouting up like so many shoots in the spring marking promising recipes. Then comes experimentation: making each of those recipes, seeing which work and which don’t. And finally – tragically – the third age […]
2 comments | Cabbage, chickpeas, Chole, cookbooks, Curry, Indian
Kushari shows up in Minneapolis, MN.
1 comment | chickpeas, Dining Out, Egypt, Lentils, Minneapolis, Pasta, Restaurants, Rice
Tom tries to make hummus with a ricer. It is not a good idea.