Book Reviews

Revolution Tofu Curry

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Revolution Tofu Curry Adapted from Very Simple Curry, p. 271, Jamie’s Food Revolution Serves 4 6 scallions large bunch of fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons olive oil 5 heaped teaspoons curry powder 1 tablespoon butter 2 cans (14-ounces each) coconut milk sea salt juice of 1 lemon 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil 15 ounces extra firm […]

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Chef Hiro Sone’s Niku-Jaga

Memory is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to food.  I recently got a cookbook called Cooking from the Heart, a book put together by the organization Share Our Strength.  The book features recipes from one hundred of the country's well-known chefs.  The book is wonderful. Usually I love cookbooks with lots of pictures–I […]

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Semi-Homemade Halloween

Early yesterday evening I made the drive out to Glendale to attend the Sandra Lee event. It had been a bit of a bummer day, but I was determined not to let things get to me and ruin my evening, and I’m so glad because I had a wonderful time! Before leaving I tried to […]

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Butternut Soup in My French Kitchen

“We came on the wind of the carnival. A warm wind for February, laden with the hot greasy scents of frying pancakes and sausages and powdery-sweet waffles cooked on the hot plate right there by the roadside, with the confetti sleeting down collars and cuffs and rolling in the gutters like an idiot antidote to […]

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