Argentina’s not known for its beer. But it does make one, for export at least: Quilmes. Then I met John and his insane 2,300+ beer selection at Eagle Provisions, and realized I was wrong. All this time! Read about this Polish gem in south Park Slope over on Serious Eats. Continue reading eagle provisions.
Our batch of White House Honey Porter is bubbling along beautifully in the living room. We put in the airlock after two days on the blow off tube and no explosions! We’re making progress here. It’s been 13 days since we brewed our batch of homebrew, and now it’s time to bottle for stage two fermentation and conditioning. We pulled out our great recipe from … Continue reading obama brew. part two.
We’ve made it our business to eat all the empanadas in New York. Think of it as market research, if you will. Many of them are good, some disappointing, but we’d not come across any truly great ones until we stumbled across some at a somewhat unlikely spot: a Brazilian market in Astoria. Mmmmm. They’re quite unlike our Argentine empanadas, or the fried empanadas of … Continue reading rio market.
The White House dabbled in some homebrewing a while back, and of course the foodie blogosphere went crazy. Someone even went as far as to file a Freedom of Information Act for the recipe! Ha! It worked, or something worked. Because here we have it, from the WH itself: We’ve brewed beer a total of three times since buying our starter kit in 2008. Yup, … Continue reading obama brew. part one.
We spent the last ten days with The Stepkids, driving from London to Berlin, stopping (for shows) in Vlieland – a remote Dutch island for the Into the Great Wide Open festival – Amsterdam, Wuppertal and Erfurt. We’re back and missing it, of course — warm sunlight pale with autumn, crisp evenings, good beer and herring, sliced fresh and served with sweet pickles, empty beaches … Continue reading the netherlands + germany.
We fell hard for scotch eggs last week in London. They’re like the British equivalent of a breakfast empanada — soft boiled egg, wrapped in sausage, breaded and fried. Doesn’t that sound insanely good? It is. Luckily, we found some absolutely delicious ones in NYC, at Myers of Keswick in the West Village. Read about this seriously patriotic British outpost over on Serious Eats. Continue reading myers of keswick.
Last year ’round this time, we cooked up an epic Rosh Hashanah feast. This year, we headed to South Williamsburg to find where to buy the ingredients — from the source. New post up on Serious Eats. Read about Schwartz’s Kosher Grocery here. Continue reading schwartz kosher grocery.
The recently-discovered Bangkok Center Grocery has been an unending source of tasty surprises. First, it carries tamarind candies, which we attempted to make ourselves back in March. And second, it has fresh pandan leaves and frozen coconut milk! Pandan, according to Clara’s former Singaporean roommate, is the “vanilla of the East”, insofar as it’s used in the same way and with the same frequency. But it’s … Continue reading pandan coconut ice cream.
Color dinners returned this week with a late summer red. Red, the color of tomatoes, beets and berries, pomegranate, cherries, cranberries and cabbage, watermelon and watermelon radishes, hot peppers, sweet peppers, campari, rhubarb, salumi, red curry, red lentils, red quinoa, and wine-braised meats. It was, truly, an epic dinner. We had a new spot with more room and more guests, and three dinners in, imaginations … Continue reading red.
We’ve been tinkering with red these past few days in anticipation of tomorrow’s red dinner, and we thought we’d share some of our successes (and failures!) A visual sneak peak, of sorts. First up: friend & fellow dinner guest Gabbi called on us for some moral support in her quest to make colored pasta. She’d made a homemade pasta rack, and everything: We tried roasted … Continue reading red dinner prep.
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