The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

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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.

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Korean Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Noodles (Japchae)

I had an unplanned hiatus from the blog for the past couple of weeks for a number of reasons, including a big project at work, a stomach flu and unplanned technical difficulties. In a bizarre foreshadowing, about three weeks ago my colleague and friend remarked that my the laptop’s desktop was a real disaster (she may have used stronger language) and that if my computer were to crash, I’d be very sorry. Exactly one week later when my laptop crashed, I was indeed very sorry. After some initial panic, it all looks like it’s going to be okay, but I have learned my lesson. I think.

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Broiled Vegetable Salad

Is there any cuisine more synonymous with summer eating than so-called “Mediterranean food”? Probably not, I think.  There’s something about the abundance of eggplant, tomato, zucchini – everything accented with lemon – that really makes you feel like popping open a bottle of cold and bracing white wine and enjoying the sunshine. Also- grilled everything. Nothing says summer like char, right?

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Braised Chard, Potato and Poblano Tacos

A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated a birthday. In years past, my birthday celebration has generally been out at a restaurant or bar with a group of friends, with the size of the group a direct reflection of my feelings about that year’s birthday. But this year, I decided to throw myself a themed fiesta and cook dinner for 25 of my closest friends. Easy, right?

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