The last place I expected to find a good recipe for Cochinita Pibil, was in the comments of an English-language website that recaps Spanish-language telenovelas. If you’re asking yourself how I wound up reading the comments on that site, I have both an easy and a more complicated answer for you. The easy answer is [...]
Crockpot Cochinita (Puerco) Pibil: Yucatecan-style Pork with a Telenovela Twist
June 14, 2012 by · 3 Comments
Super Simple Stir-fry Formula
May 24, 2012 by · 5 Comments
My first recipe experiments were in a shared dorm hall kitchen during my freshman year of college. Unfortunately, those meals were mostly forgettable. What I do remember is that my neighbor, homesick for her native Korea, thought I made the perfect taste-tester. She would cook dishes that were unfamiliar and exotic to my rural Utah [...]
Poached Salmon in Foil Packets – Two Days, Two Ways
May 10, 2012 by · 8 Comments
I was browsing. Just trying to mind my own business. But, then I heard a deep voice – a la Michael Clarke Duncan – ask, “What’s for dinner?” Standing next to me was the butcher – as imposing as his voice, arms crossed as if proudly surveying the meat, poultry, and seafood refrigeration units that [...]
Reinventing Chiles en Nogada Soup-Style
April 26, 2012 by · 8 Comments
Deconstruct: To break something down into its component parts. For a recipe, this means looking at the recipe and determining the essential ingredients – the ones that make the dish unique, satisfying, and flavorful. Deconstruction is one of my favorite ways to reinvent a dish when I want to experience its flavors AND tailor the [...]
