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Strawberry Shiso Sorbet
image courtesy of Nicholas Calcott What a treat to arrive back in Paris and have the markets be full of lush, juicy strawberries. Seeing the berries always inspires me to make some extravagant...
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Mayo and Green Goddess
Recently I dropped my yolks into the blender, turned on the blade and started to drizzle sunflower oil drop by drop. 10 minutes later instead of delicious creamy mayo, I had swirly egg oil, yuck. I...
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Francesco’s sugo al pomodoro
We poured flour onto the wooden counter and formed a well in the center. We cracked three eggs into the middle of the well and scrambled the eggs with a fork. We then kneaded the flour and eggs for 10...
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Buttermilk Corn Bread and Yellow Tomato Jam
This past week has been a whirlwind. It all started with a bus to the airport, followed by 3500 miles on a plane next to some curmudgeon who complained about Tatie, 5 hours stuck in Boston rush hour...
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Flour, Water, Flames & Child Labor
Recently Laura’s nephew S was asleep in his car seat when his mother pulled into a gas station here in MN. Beside the gas station was one of those tall steel lattice electrical towers. As S slowly...
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Smoking with Frenchie
He had me at hello. No seriously, I speak French like sling blade, so when Greg Marchand the chef at Frenchie in Paris said “Hello” in English, I was smitten. The meal that followed that night was one...
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Carnitas and Tequila Red Onions
For as much as I love the cuisine and the culture, I have only been to Mexico once. It was my sophomore year of college and a friend’s parents were invited to stay in a suite at the newly built Aqua...
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Buttermilk Fried Chicken
I have tried to shy away from frying things. It isn’t the health concerns that I fear. It isn’t the danger of oil fires either. It’s simply that when you fry even the smallest thing in your home it...
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“Making America Proud”
At a recent dinner a Frenchman leaned over to me and said, “you have made America proud with this dish!” The extolled dish was our rehashing of an American classic, the baked potato. As we saw it, the...
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White Salad
Usually around the first or second week of December, the lettuce farmers in Eastern Washington would stop bringing the greens we needed for the Dahlia’s mixed green salad. This change signaled the...
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