Pav bhaji. With a stick of butter. Accept no less. The recipe is on @bonappetitmag and linked in my stories.
10!(?!) Feels like yesterday and forever all at once 🤍@mirouskokovic . Dinner @gramercytavern , where we had our wedding dinner, and drained our savings, with four of our friends, eating Arctic char and concorde grape sorbet, 8 months before Miro would start working there. Thanks @shari_tanaka for a baby version of the wedding cake we never had 💖
“What if seven layer dip had melty cheese?” @moroccochris asked the question. This was my answer. Links to make, watch, and read my ode to American cheese are in my stories.
Wee birthday dinner for my birthday babe, @mirouskokovic 🥳 Whipped feta with zucchini and Trader Joe’s always great zhoug. Pork schnitzel which didn’t quite puff as expected but whatever. Garlic-rosemary roasties. @viacarota style green salad. And this years birthday cake was a tiny Dobos torta complete with caramel-dipped wings.
✨New recipes✨ from the February issue of @bonappetitmag . A collection of sauces to simplify your cooking. Quick to make, bags of flavor, instantly transformative. Mix and match proteins and vegetables so you don’t get bored. Toasted Sesame Seaweed Ranch — rife with sesame seeds and the salty depth of crushed seaweed snacks. Creamy Chimichurri — sharp and herbal but mellowed out with yogurt for a double duty sauce that makes an equally good marinade. Whipped Cashew & Sambal Sauce — a dairy free delight, a little spicy and very creamy. Sweet + Sour Cucumber Dressing — based on Thai ajad, my forever fav condiment. Crunchy, salty, sweet, and tart. And not pictured but also a brazen Preserved Lemon and Pistachio pan sauce that’s lightening quick. Links to recipes in my stories. And probs in the bio if you can be bothered to scroll through.
A queen and her (chestnut) cake. @realbakingwithrose also treated us to porcini pasta and chicken paprikash with a special ingredient that’s older than me! 🌹
Wrote about lettuce. And butter. One rather unusual, both very useful. Links to read are in my stories.
Special pongal in honor of Pongal weekend—the Southern Indian harvest festival. Pearly, fragrant Gobindobhog rice from Calcutta, a downright indecent amount of ghee, and a cashew for every mouthful. This followed by an afternoon nap and it almost feels like being home. I miss my dog. He’d eat the fresh sugarcane (an essential part of the celebration) just like a human person—calmly stripping away the tough skin then spitting out the spent pulp.
A recent favorite: my Fancy-Frugal story from the December issue of @bonappetitmag . A collection of seven recipes from spiced red wine with coke, to beet(yes, with a t) tartare, a retro-special stuffed meatloaf, and a simple but striking sundae full of caramel drenched oranges. Proof that you don’t have to break the bank to pull together a holiday feast. I talk about it on @goodmorningamerica along side @chophappy and @bakedbydan who share their own fun recipes and tips. (thanks to @rebeccafirkser for cooking 10 pounds of potatoes that morning!).
Happy work moment: developing two spice blends this year for the @bonappetitmag x @burlapandbarrel collab. A baking blend spiked with smoked star anise and mesquite. And a dark, spicy pastrami-inspired grilling rub good for more than just meat (or the grill). Love @burlapandbarrel so, so much and this was a dream come true. Link to shop (along with @moroccochris brilliant umami blend) is up in my stories.
Tiny Thanksgiving on the Monday after is really the way to do it, imo. @mirouskokovic did all of the actual work and cooking (including @moroccochris ’ glossy maple butter turkey and a deeply savory mushroom gravy). I made mashed potatoes and opened the can of cranberry jelly. One for the books.