I’d venture to guess that peas are a vegetable most people never eat fresh. I think it’s the convenience factor — frozen and canned peas are easy and inexpensive — and the fact that frozen can sometimes taste even better than fresh, because they’re picked … Read More →
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 balance of hot and sour … Read More →
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, many people, myself included, use … Read More →
As a kid, the thought of split pea soup is revolting. For one thing, the soup’s green; it’s also thick like baby food; it has the word “pee” in it (okay, different spelling, but to a kid, the words are one and the same). As … Read More →
Tried, But Still Can’t Get Into Gazpacho
I’d like to start off by saying thank you to all of you who have emailed me this week with well wishes. Even though we’ve never met, we share a connection through our love of food, and that makes us something more than strangers. I’m … Read More →