Recipe: Soboro nasu bowl with fried tofu (a la Tampopo restaurant)
A Cambridge institution, a little Japanese food stand called Tampopo, has closed after over 30 years in business. Yasu, the owner, had been a chef at Genji, a J...
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When a book makes you crave biang biang noodles
It’s been a while since I wrote down a recipe, and I’m writing this one down so I’ll remember how to do it, and what I did. I read Annalee New...
Duck Day 2025 Recap, Recipes, and Picspam
Whew. Another Duck Day done and dusted. I just took my wedding ring off and discovered a leaf of thyme has been hiding under it since some time during the cooki...
Cranberry Nut Bread “Fruitcake” Recipe
So I’m blogging this recipe so I don’t forget all the changes I made to this recipe, because there were enough of them that it was significant, and ...
Duck Day 2024 Wrap-up & Picspam!
Duck Day 2024: Foods & Dishes You Can’t Get Anymore Here we go, our annual Thanksgiving gourmet cooking extravaganza, in which we make no turkey, but do mak...
The Unexpected, the Sublime, and the pastime of looking up.
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Duck Day 2023: Full Canto
If you’ve read my “Duck Day” posts before, you know it’s my rundown of what corwin and I made for Thanksgiving. In 2023 we left for Arub...
Duck Day 2022: Bistronomy
Now that I finally posted last year’s Duck Day notes and photos, I can do this year’s, which had the theme of “Bistronomy.” This year...
Duck Day 2021 (last year’s food porn, finally posted!)
Apparently, I never got around to posting last year’s Duck Day compilation of photos and recipes…? So I’m quickly trying to put it together no...
Pandemic Baking: Queen of Hearts Strawberry Rose Frangiapane Tarts
Around Christmas we got friends together for a Zoom cocktail party with a custom cocktail class with Tammy’s Tastings (I highly recommend her mix-at-home ...