This isn’t a recipe; it’s the story of a minor obsession—and a pretty typical one as far as my cooking obsessions go. I start with something that fascinates me and then go down a rabbit hole with it until I realize it’s dark and cold, and then I backtrack a bit and settle in somewhereContinue reading “Miso Soup from Scratch (kind of)”
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Friday Favorites: Food Blogs
I get a lot of questions from friends about where I find recipes, so I thought I’d start a list here. See this post for how I curate feeds from these blogs and organize the recipes once I find them: Serious Eats. This is the site I’ve consulted most frequently over the years. The olderContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Food Blogs”
Summer in a Jar
I logged a lot of time at the kids’ table in the kitchen processing fruit for my mom. She was bound and determined to give her city girls a country education, so she and my dad transformed our backyard into a decent facsimile of an orchard in Michigan, where they grew up. We had twoContinue reading “Summer in a Jar”
Umeboshi and the RBQ
Before I even get started, this is a story of failure. Umeboshi, Japanese salted plums, get their plum-purple color traditionally not from the fruit itself–Japanese ume are actually yellow–but from red shiso, an herb in the mint family with an inimitable flavor. I have tried and failed to grow red shiso so many times. It’sContinue reading “Umeboshi and the RBQ”
The Rookery 