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Archive for May, 2008

Deep-Fried Sushi!

Posted in eating, tagged , , on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just back from lunch at Osaka, the Brizzi family’s favorite local restaurant. We started off our healthy fish and rice with an order of spicy lobster roll, a decadent confection of creamy sauce around lobster rolled up in rice and seaweed, dumped in tempura batter and fried. It was like the best of what’s best [...]

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Oh, fiddle-dee-dee (heads), said Scarlett

Posted in eating, tagged , on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Of course, two days after the cooking class when I needed some promised fiddleheads, they showed up in the local supermarket. So I had to buy some anyway. They were 5.99/lb., which seems kind of steep to me (but everything does these days), but a half a pound makes a large portion to feed four, [...]

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Just call me “Teach”

Posted in Food Writing Biz, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The other night I did a cooking demo for eight people at Jessica Bard’s Kitchen-Class at Warren Cutlery here in Rhinebeck. I’ve done demos onstage in front of big audiences, and to people milling around at a farmers market, but teaching a small group like this was a first. I had lots of fun hamming [...]

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A rose is a rose is an…artichoke

Posted in eating, tagged , , , on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My girl sure loves her artichokes. My daughter Sofia, 6, is a vegetable avoider generally, but she loves artichokes every chance she gets. She polished off this grand specimen, almost bigger than her head, pretty much all by herself, with very little help from Mommy and Daddy. She even expertly removed the choke when the [...]

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