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I ran out of Irish recipes in the old Try file, so for St Patrick’s Day this year, we did a Breton-inspired menu: keeping it in the Celtic family at least…. The Kig Ha Farz was…interesting. I think this recipe from David Lebovitz would have yielded a lighter and fluffier “farz” or buckwheat dumpling. YouContinue reading “ESC #36”

This turned out to be a pretty pioneer-y menu featuring the kinds of things that Western settlers would have have in their cellars this time of year: venison, apples, cabbage, onions, carrots, etc. And it was really one of our best menus in terms of the way it all came together. The bang-to-buck ratio onContinue reading “ESC #35”

This started out as a Groundhog’s Day menu with as much chocolate in it as possible from the recipes in my Try file–because my sister has decided that Groundhog’s Day is the chocolate holiday, and who am I to argue with solid logic? But we had to postpone, and it ended up being Valentine’s DayContinue reading “ESC #34: Groundhog’s/Valentine’s Day”

I love any excuse to pull out Mr. Dragon: just please don’t tell him he cosplayed as a snake this year (made possible by his lack of any legs)…. We pulled a selection of dim-sum-adjacent recipes from my Try file for a Lunar New Year brunch. I think the youtiao were the biggest hit b/cContinue reading “ESC #33: Year of the Snake”

Just focus on the cute olive penguins and ignore how far behind I got with documenting these…. The penguins were from #31: Tree-hunting Edition, and they weren’t actually experimental—I’ve made them before. I don’t remember where I got the recipe/idea (you can basically see how to make them). I’m going to go out on aContinue reading “Catching up with ESC: 30-32”

I had kinda given up on ever being able to make the “linguine ricci di mare” recipe from my Try file because it involves fresh sea-urchin roe (most commonly known by its Japanese name, uni). When its fresh, uni is one of the best things you can put in your mouth on the planet: itContinue reading “ESC #30: Birthday Edition”

In which we encounter the only true failure of the ESC series to date…. An Asian theme on this one. The winner for everyone was the dessert. The lumpia were very good as well, and the chive green beans straightforward and flexible. David Chang’s Spicy Pork Sausage Ragu with Rice Cakes was the problem here;Continue reading “ESC #29”

This one had a sort of late-summer-at-an-Argentinian-estancia theme. It was all pretty good, but the lomo al trapo stole the show—as you would expect from a $90 piece of meat that you wrap in a red-wine soaked dish towel and throw into a fire…as long as it comes out right, which it did b/c it’sContinue reading “ESC #26”