Food on the Brain

04/12/2020

We may not have mushrooms, dill, asparagus, or (most importantly) any guests, but Curried Egg Day goes on regardless. Deviled eggs in curry sauce, tossed green salad, bubbly, and pie with rhubarb from the garden and strawberries from the depths of the freezer.

04/04/2020

Today's freezer dig gave us a lunch of homemade smoked pork ribs and baked beans from sometime last year, with coleslaw made out of the last fading bit of cabbage from the crisper drawer.

04/04/2020

Soup for dinner

04/02/2020

03/28/2020

03/25/2020

03/20/2020

It turns out that one of the perks of self isolation is being able to keep an eye on your avocados for ripeness. This one was so perfect I had to make avocado toast, drizzled with a bit of olive oil and sprinkled with Rancho Gordo's Stardust chile-lime powder. Lovely.

03/19/2020

I'd been meaning to cook up the lumpia in our freezer for a while now, so self-isolation seemed like the perfect opportunity. To go with it I found a recipe for hot and sour soup on Smitten Kitchen, it was incredibly easy (thanks to our pantry containing soft tofu, bamboo shoots, and dried cloud ear mushrooms.) Feeling grateful for impulse grocery purchases of the past.

03/18/2020

My article on quarantine cooking is out in this week's issue. We're eating well so far, hope you all are too.

For the last few weeks most of us have been stocking up and getting ready to hunker down to slow the spread of COVID-19. We’ve started socially distancing ourselves and building up our Netflix queues. Now what are you going to eat for the next few weeks? One great option is to order…

03/18/2020

Roasted chicken yesterday means chicken pot pie today. Buttermilk biscuit recipe from Kitchen Sense by Mitchell Davis, always a winner. Forgot to buy mushrooms at the store last week so threw in some soaked porcini, then used their soaking liquid for the gravy. Not bad.

03/17/2020

It's been distressing to watch all of our favorite restaurants struggling to stay open these past weeks, and the new order to go takeout-only isn't helping. Support your local places if you can! Today I got crab sandwiches from Skagit's Own Fish Market for lunch. Delightful as always, although I had to fight off a few cats while eating it.