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  • Salad on the Same Plate as Dinner, Revisited

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    March 5, 2021
    Salad on the Same Plate as Dinner, Revisited

    Back in 2013, when I was still something of an innocent, I wrote a post called “Salad on the Same Plate as Dinner” in which I argued that hot food and cold food never belong together on the same plate. I was specifically reacting to a dinner that I had at Parm on the Lower…

  • There Will Be Borscht

    Braises, Recipes, Soups

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    December 16, 2020
    There Will Be Borscht

    Recently I interviewed Dorie Greenspan on my Instagram Live and she talked about how she’s been cooking so much lately from cookbooks. I confessed that I’d fallen into a rut where I just keep making the same things over and over again: roast chicken with root vegetables, pasta, pork chops, pasta, soup, pasta. Did I…

  • Nancy Silverton’s Epic Eggplant Lasagna

    Casseroles/Lasagnas, Main Dishes, Recipes, Vegetarian

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    December 9, 2020
    Nancy Silverton’s Epic Eggplant Lasagna

    Remember the end of The Goonies, when the Goonies reunite with their parents and they’re rattling off all of the things that happened to them on their adventure? And Data says, “The octopus was very scary,” even though there wasn’t an octopus, though technically there was an octopus, it was just cut from the movie?…

  • Miso Peanut Butter Cookies

    Cookies, Desserts, Recipes

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    December 3, 2020
    Miso Peanut Butter Cookies

    Do my friends read my food blog? We’re about to find out. See, I had this idea of buying cookie tins and making a whole assortment of holiday cookies to bring to friends around L.A. a la Melissa Clark’s latest NYT piece. But then I thought: it’s Covid, am I really going to drive all…

  • Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Pears, Toasted Almonds, and Parmesan

    Recipes, Salads

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    November 23, 2020
    Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Pears, Toasted Almonds, and Parmesan

    There’s been some debate about whether or not you should serve salad at Thanksgiving. My stance? A traditional salad — with wan lettuce leaves from a bag, dried cranberries (the most clichéd Thanksgiving salad ingredient), and toasted pecans — is a pretty depressing thing to see on the table, TBH. But, as I get older,…

  • Overnight Oats in a Mostly-Empty Yogurt Container

    Breakfast, Oatmeal, Recipes

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    November 18, 2020
    Overnight Oats in a Mostly-Empty Yogurt Container

    There used to a website called “Is It Iced Coffee Weather?” that would tell you whether you should drink hot coffee or iced coffee on a particular day. I’d like to build a similar website for oats. For me, it’s either overnight oat weather or hot oatmeal weather. Right now, in L.A., we’re on the…

  • Grilled Cheese with Caramelized Onions, Grainy Mustard, and Gruyère

    Cheese, Recipes, Sandwiches

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    November 16, 2020
    Grilled Cheese with Caramelized Onions, Grainy Mustard, and Gruyère

    Back in the before time, in November of 2018 to be exact, the chef Nancy Silverton hosted a grilled cheese night at Republique here in L.A. Republique — one of the best restaurants in L.A., if not the best (see here) — is the site of Nancy Silverton’s iconic restaurant of yore, Campanile. There, with…

  • Got Persimmons? Make Persimmon Bread

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    November 11, 2020
    Got Persimmons? Make Persimmon Bread

    And so it was that I found myself at an AirBnb in Santa Barbara with persimmon trees. The trees were so beautiful — I’m mad at myself for not taking a picture of them (sorry!) — it felt like a crime to actually pull persimmons off of them. But pull persimmons off of them, I…

  • Delicata Squash and Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan and Saba

    Pasta/Risotto, Recipes

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    November 9, 2020
    Delicata Squash and Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan and Saba

    There’s a certain type of cooking that I excel at and it’s called “I just got back from a trip and what do I have in my fridge?” cooking. Usually, when I get back from somewhere, I’m too fatootsed to go food shopping, so I either (a) give in and order take-out from Pine and…

  • Lunch at La Super-Rica in Santa Barbara

    California, Travel

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    November 9, 2020
    Lunch at La Super-Rica in Santa Barbara

    We spent last week with some friends (our quarantine pod) in Santa Barbara to ride out the election. And what a week it was! We thought we might be celebrating on Tuesday night as the results rolled in, but, as we all know, Tuesday’s uncertainty led to Wednesday’s uncertainty as the votes were slowly and…

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