Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Fun with Feta

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    Fun with Feta

    Oh commenters, you complete me. I did a post last week called Summer Food where I asked you, my readers, what foods really capture the summer season. The responses were great, but one stuck out in my head as I made my way to the grocery store this weekend. That was KatyBelle’s. She said, “Anything…

  • James Felder Goes To Flushing

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    My friend James Felder of Snapshot Artifact went to Flushing today for dim sum and he would like to share his story with you. He would also like me to tell you that his new word for “dude” is “pussycakes.”

  • The Day My Pound Cake Threw Up

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    The Day My Pound Cake Threw Up

    “Wouldn’t it be wonderful,” I thought, “if instead of making a complicated fancy-schmancy-my-name-is-Nancy dessert I made something really simple like a pound cake? And used really good butter? And fresh farmer’s market eggs? And served it with raspberries and whipped cream? And used Martha Stewart’s recipe?” That was the plan. I bought Plugra style butter…

  • We Go Together Like Beets And Carrots

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    We Go Together Like Beets And Carrots

    Let’s play the Kevin Bacon game with beets and carrots. Beets are in Borscht; Borscht comes from Russia; Russia was part of the original U.S.S.R.; “Back in the U.S.S.R.” is a song by The Beatles; The Beatles have a song called “Glass Onion”; onions are part of what the French call Mirepoix; carrots are in…

  • If you live in Seattle…

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    If you live in Seattle…

    …you can have Craig’s sister, Kristin, as a waitress. Go visit her at her restaurant, The Fremont Classic, and tell her I sent you. This is her waiting on us last week:…you can also be in Craig’s movie! If you want to be an extra, send an e-mail to info@trueadolescents.com with a brief physical description,…

  • “Ratatouille” & Jewish Assimilation (an essay, with spoilers)

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    “Ratatouille” & Jewish Assimilation (an essay, with spoilers)

    The key moment in “Ratatouille” is not the creation of the title dish, a layered circle of sliced zucchini, eggplant, and tomato perfectly rendered by Pixar’s animators and lovingly sauced by Remy, the film’s protagonist. It’s not the climactic scene of judgment by the film’s primary antagonist, the food critic Anton Ego, voiced by a…

  • Happy Trails

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    Happy Trails

    Yee-haw: that’s me, Molly and Kristin (Craig’s sister) on horseback at the top of Tiger Mountain. We went horseback riding yesterday (both Molly and Kristin have experience with horses; I don’t–which made trotting very painful) and it’s the best $60 I’ve spent in a long time. I’m heading back to New York tomorrow so until…

  • Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

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    Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

    I recall a movie from my childhood–“The Peanut Butter Solution”–at the end of which a young boy whose hair has fallen out (I don’t exactly remember why) enters a room filled with magical, sparkly, landscape paintings. The paintings, you soon learn, are enterable: whichever one he picks, he can walk into. And I felt like…

  • An Impromptu Food Blogger Meet-Up

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    An Impromptu Food Blogger Meet-Up

    Fate must be a fan of food blogs. It just so happens that my arrival in Seattle coincided with the arrival of David Lebovitz who you may recognize from the lyrics to a pretty brilliant song. The Seattle food blog militia got together and planned a dinner in my honor (David doesn’t have any honor)…

  • La Carta de Oaxaca

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    La Carta de Oaxaca

    You know you’re in love with a restaurant when you have a specific craving for it. Usually when I visit a different city, I like to eat all my meals at different places to make the most of my trip. But yesterday after horseback riding (more on that later!) I turned to Kristin, Craig’s sister,…