The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

Author: elizabethskitchenchronicles (page 3 of 77)

Vinegared Kale Puree

Last weekend I didn’t cook. At all. Not a single thing! Instead of spending a full day in the kitchen, I spent two full days deep cleaning the main floor of my apartment. In the aftermath of this decision, my hands are a wreck from essentially soaking in Lysol for 30 hours (why didn’t I wear gloves?), there is not a speck of dust in the entire place, the floors are shiny and the apartment has a faint chemical smell that signals to anyone who enters that this is a home that has recently been cleaned within an inch of its life.

Continue reading

Roulade of Taro Leaves with a Tomato Mustard Sauce (Patra Masala)

I really pride myself on my ability to solve all kinds of problems. I’m talking the kind I solve for my clients at work (i.e. “This horrible thing is about to break in the news, what do I do?”) and the more tangible kind around the house (i.e. how to maximize space above my cabinets with custom home-built bookshelves). I draw the line at electric work but light plumbing has always been fair game. However, this weekend I came to terms with the limitations of my home improvement abilities.

Continue reading

Fat Noodles with XO Sauce

There are so many ways for cooking to be satisfying, though I find that for me it usually falls into one of two camps. Either I threw something together out of nothing and it’s unexpectedly delicious (my “famous” refrigerator eggs and rice) or I put in countless hours grocery shopping in the outer boroughs, making the recipes inside recipes (don’t you love that?) and used techniques entirely new to me, and it turned out delicious despite the opportunity for about 150 kinds of failure along the way. The recipes from the cookbook Adventures of Fat Rice feature the latter style. But with no failure, only delicious outcomes.

Continue reading

Sticky Buns

There’s something really magical about baking with yeast. Every time I bake bread, or rolls or buns, I’m equally shocked that the dough has risen! Twice! Pulling back the dish towel on a bowl of proofing dough hasn’t lost its luster, even after all this time.

Continue reading

Older posts Newer posts