Hot and sour soup sounds so deceptively simple.  Hot. Sour. How difficult can that be?  Well, plenty, at least for this home cook.  In the past when I've made the soup, it's turned out, ehh. A few problems emerged: the delicate ...Read More

In Pursuit of Hot and Sour Soup Perfection

One of my favorite comedians, Brian Regan, has a funny bit about cranberries that starts off, "I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for ...Read More

Quinoa Cakes with Eggplant-Tomato Ragu

Last week's visit to Croton-on-Hudson inspired this week's recipe, broccoli knishes. Fun times in Croton -- spent a while doing work at Black Cow, then later met friends at Tavern at Croton Landing, where the happy hour drinks were dirt cheap ...Read More

I’m Turning Into a Jewish Grandmother

If potstickers are origami, wontons are paper airplanes: 10 times simpler to construct. That's partly because the shaping and crimping of potstickers is more intricate than the folding of wontons, and partly because rather than make wonton wrappers from scratch, ...Read More

Shrimp Wonton Soup

This month's issue of Saveur features a how-to for making homemade egg noodles, accompanied by a pretty picture of fresh-cut noodles draped over wooden spoons.  It was surprising to see how few steps were involved, and the pic was all ...Read More

Homemade Egg Noodles