Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Another soup beauty! This soup has a very unexpected ingredient—Jerusalem artichokes. What the heck are Jerusalem artichokes? Are they even artichokes at all? According to Harold McGee’s definitive book On Food and Cooking the Jerusalem artichoke is sometimes called a sunchoke or an earth apple.…
I had a kuri squash rattling around in my pantry left from a recent foray to the local Farmer’s Market. I love the deep saturated color of that squash and it needed to be used while it was at its peak. This recipe from Yotam…
Beans! Glorious beans!
This is an enthusiastic repeat recipe for Blue Cayenne. We originally featured the recipe back in May of 2024. Here is the link and the recipe: Turkish White Beans.
This recipe is from Yasmin Khan’s cookbook, Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories From Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. You can buy the book through your local bookstore or on Amazon here. By the way, the author recommends using dried beans for better texture and “the best olive oil you can afford” for flavor. I used Rancho Gordo’s Marcella beans and Antica (Los Alamitos Ca) high polyphenol olive oil. I love and recommend both products. Here is a link to the Rancho Gordo site Rancho Gordo Beans and here is a link to the Antica Olive Oil site Antica Olive Oils and Vinegars..
About the Ripe Figs Cookbook, it is an exploraton of the cuisines of the eastern Mediterranean and the impact of migration (past and present) on those areas and their cuisines. Of the book Yotam Ottolenghi wrote, ” Ripe Figs is a dazzling cookbook that celebrates an ever-diversifying region and imagines a world without borders.”
I was having an “off” cooking day yesterday. A recipe from one of my favorite cooks, Eric Kim, just wasn’t turning out for me. Hate that. So, I had a Marie Antoinette moment. I let myself eat cake for comfort. As it turned out, my…
Love to try interesting-sounding new recipes? Me, too! Get a recipe failure now and then? Me, too! All may not be lost. I enjoy experimenting with new recipes. Sometimes, a recipe just doesn’t appeal to my taste or it lacks the visual appeal that is…
